RUPERT BROOKE: by Henry James
RUPERT BROOKE: by Henry James Nothing more generally or more recurrently solicits us, in the light of literature, I think, than the interest of our learning how the poet, the true poet, and above all the particular one with whom we may for the moment be concerned, ...
WHAT IS A WERWOLF? by Elliott O’Donnell
WHAT IS A WERWOLF? by Elliott O'Donnell WHAT is a werwolf? To this there is no one very satisfactory reply. There are, indeed, so many diverse views held with regard to the nature and classification of werwolves, their existence is so keenly disputed, and the subject is ...
Animal Ghosts or Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliot O’Donnell
The following excerpt is the Preface to the book Animal Ghosts or Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliot O'Donnell. O'Donnell was born in 1872. He worked at one time as a police officer but later became a "ghost hunter." This piece [as are all of his works (to the best of my knowledge)] is non-fiction.
III. ON THE ART OF POETRY By Aristotle
ON THE ART OF POETRY By Aristotle III. A third difference in these arts is in the manner in which each kind of object is represented. Given both the same means and the same kind of object for imitation, one may either (1) speak at one moment in ...
POETRY TO-DAY IN AMERICA by Walt Whitman
POETRY TO-DAY IN AMERICA SHAKSPERE—THE FUTURE by Walt Whitman Strange as it may seem, the topmost proof of a race is its own born poetry. The presence of that, or the absence, each tells its story. As the flowering rose or lily, as the ripened fruit to a ...
Solitude by Henry David Thoreau
Solitude By Henry David Thoreau This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, a part of herself. As I walk along the stony shore of the pond ...
INTELLECT By Ralph Waldo Emerson
INTELLECT By Ralph Waldo Emerson Every substance is negatively electric to that which stands above it in the chemical tables, positively to that which stands below it. Water dissolves wood and iron and salt; air dissolves water; electric fire dissolves air, but the intellect dissolves fire, gravity, ...
ON THE ART OF POETRY By Aristotle II.
ON THE ART OF POETRY By Aristotle II. The objects the imitator represents are actions, with agents who are necessarily either good men or bad—the diversities of human character being nearly always derivative from this primary distinction, since the line between virtue and vice is one dividing ...
Origin of Printing by Frederick Saunders (1839)
Origin and Progress of Printing by Frederick Saunders (1839) (I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the ideals of an early publisher, a pioneer in modern printing of his day. Much like many of us are pioneers of modern web and digital printing. ...
Film of Mark Twain 1909 Taken by Thomas Edison
Very interesting short clip of Mark Twain a year before he died.
The Story of a Speech by Mark Twain
THE STORY OF A SPEECH An address delivered in 1877, and a review of it twenty-nine years later. The original speech was delivered at a dinner given by the publishers of The Atlantic Monthly in honor of the seventieth anniversary o f the birth of ...
ARISTOTLE ON THE ART OF POETRY
Check back each day, over time we will publish the complete work of Aristotle on the Art of Poetry.
