OF HAWTHORNE AND THE SHORT STORY by Edgar Allen Poe

OF HAWTHORNE AND THE SHORT STORY by Edgar Allen Poe The reputation of the author of "Twice-Told ...

Interview with Mark Twain

This interview is from Hartford Daily Courant from May 30th 1888. Twain would have been ...

THE POET AS PROPHET James Russell Lowell

THE POET AS PROPHET James Russell Lowell Poets are the forerunners and prophets of changes in the ...

STEPHEN CRANE—A NOTE WITHOUT DATES—1919 by Joseph Conrad

STEPHEN CRANE 1919 from Notes on Live and Letters, Joseph Conrad 1921. My acquaintance with Stephen ...

Introduction to Wilfred Owen’s Poems by Siegfried Sassoon

This is a wonderful Intro to Wilfred Owens book of poems by  Siegfried Sassoon. If ...

In Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley

IN DEFENSE OF POETRY from The Best of the World's Classics 1909. The functions of the poetical ...

Essay On the Art of Fiction by Willa Cather

On the Art of Fiction One is sometimes asked about the “obstacles” that confront young writers ...

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What does it mean to be a poet? by William Wordsworth

Wiliiam Wordsworth Born in 1770; died in 1850; graduated from Cambridge in 1791; traveled on the ...

National Poetry Month!

We are celebrating National Poetry Month on our message boards. We are asking for poets ...