Historical Articles by Authors

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on January 10, 2017 Shakespeare Sucks! by Leo Tolstoy2017-05-28T23:01:21+00:00 - 15 Comments

Shakespeare Sucks! by Leo Tolstoy

Shakespeare Sucks! (or Shakespeare not a Great Genius) Leo Tolstoy I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read, one after the…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on December 14, 2016 Is There a Santa Claus 18972017-03-04T09:41:13+00:00 - No Comment

Is There a Santa Claus 1897

A Menagerie Under the Tree by Richard D Wolfe The following, reprinted from the editorial page of the New York Sun, was written by the late Mr. Frank P. Church: We take pleasure in answering…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on November 24, 2016 Walt Whitman on Thanksgiving2017-03-04T09:42:53+00:00 - No Comment

Walt Whitman on Thanksgiving

THE PLACE GRATITUDE FILLS IN A FINE CHARACTER by Walt Whitman From the Philadelphia Press, Nov. 27, 1884, (Thanksgiving number) Scene.—A large family supper party, a night or two ago, with voices and laughter of…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on November 21, 2016 Walt Whitman on the Significance of Edgar Allan Poe2017-03-04T15:28:40+00:00 - No Comment

Walt Whitman on the Significance of Edgar Allan Poe

EDGAR Allan POE'S SIGNIFICANCE By Walt Whitman 1880 Walt Whitman 1887 Jan. 1, '80.—Walt Whitman on the Significance of Edgar Allan Poe: In diagnosing this disease called humanity—to assume for the nonce what seems a…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on November 20, 2016 Interview with Mark Twain2017-03-04T09:49:48+00:00 - 1 Comment

Interview with Mark Twain

This interview is from Hartford Daily Courant from May 30th 1888. Twain would have been 53 years old. He had just finished a new book. SHERIDAN'S MEMOIRS. Mark Twain Has the Book in the Works…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on February 22, 2016 Historic: My Interview With Mark Twain…2017-05-28T23:43:03+00:00 - No Comment

Historic: My Interview With Mark Twain…

My Interview With Mark Twain by Rudyard Kipling From time to time we post historic articles. This famous interview has been on our site for a long while, but I thought I would bring it…

Historic Articles by Authors by Every Writer +Every Writer on September 29, 2014 Evidence of Witches2017-05-29T00:34:34+00:00 - No Comment

Evidence of Witches

It is hard to say the origin of this picture. It is of burning witches. It is said to be in the public domain. If anyone knows of this image, post in the comments. Evidence…

Historic Articles by Authors by Every Writer +Every Writer on July 22, 2014 Mark Twain Plagiarized Oliver Wendell Holmes2017-05-25T08:05:20+00:00 - No Comment

Mark Twain Plagiarized Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mark Twain Plagiarized Oliver Wendell Holmes Mark Twain From video 1909 by Thomas Edison The truth here is that Mark Twain Plagiarized Oliver Wendell Holmes. Once again we have found a quip from Twain that…

Historic Articles by Authors by Every Writer +Every Writer on June 18, 2014 Charlotee Bronte to William Wordsworth “Thanks A Lot”2014-06-18T00:45:38+00:00 - No Comment

Charlotee Bronte to William Wordsworth “Thanks A Lot”

So from time to time we love finding things like this. It's a little piece of history, and it makes us chuckle to think that context is everything. We think writers should know history, and…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on April 15, 2011 Of Ambition by Francis Bacon2017-06-01T05:47:28+00:00 - No Comment

Of Ambition by Francis Bacon

Of Ambition by Francis Bacon AMBITION is like choler; which is an humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped. But if it be stopped, and cannot…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on October 6, 2010 OLD POETS by Walt Whitman2017-03-04T09:56:31+00:00 - No Comment

OLD POETS by Walt Whitman

Poetry (I am clear) is eligible of something far more ripen'd and ample, our lands and pending days, than it has yet produced from any utterance old or new. Modern or new poetry, too, (viewing…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on September 19, 2010 How Shakspere Came to Write the ‘Tempest’ by Rudyard Kipling2017-03-04T10:40:00+00:00 - 1 Comment

How Shakspere Came to Write the ‘Tempest’ by Rudyard Kipling

To the Editor of the Spectator. SIR:—Your article on ‘Landscape and Literature’ in the Spectator of June 18th has the following, among other suggestive passages:—“But whence came the vision of the enchanted island in the…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on September 11, 2010 III. ON THE ART OF POETRY By Aristotle2017-03-04T10:48:37+00:00 - No Comment

III. ON THE ART OF POETRY By Aristotle

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)…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on September 6, 2010 INTELLECT By Ralph Waldo Emerson2017-03-04T12:06:46+00:00 - No Comment

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…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on September 3, 2010 The Story of a Speech by Mark Twain2017-06-01T06:06:28+00:00 - No Comment

The Story of a Speech by Mark Twain

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…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on July 25, 2010 The Poetry of Ezra Pound by T. S. Eliot2017-03-04T12:09:21+00:00 - No Comment

The Poetry of Ezra Pound by T. S. Eliot

EZRA POUND HIS METRIC AND POETRY I "All talk on modern poetry, by people who know," wrote Mr. Carl Sandburg in Poetry, "ends with dragging in Ezra Pound somewhere. He may be named only to…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on July 20, 2010 Let’s Just Eat the Babies by Jonathan Swift2017-03-04T12:10:00+00:00 - No Comment

Let’s Just Eat the Babies by Jonathan Swift

A MODEST PROPOSAL Dr. Jonathan Swift For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick. 1729 It is…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on June 8, 2010 William Shakespeare’s Influence by William Dean Howells2017-03-04T12:30:39+00:00 - No Comment

William Shakespeare’s Influence by William Dean Howells

William Shakespeare's Influence by William Dean Howells The establishment of our paper in the village where there had been none before, and its enlargement from four to eight pages, were events so filling that they…

Articles On Writing by Every Writer +Every Writer on May 20, 2010 Mark Twain is a Slob by Willa Cather2017-03-04T12:33:42+00:00 - No Comment

Mark Twain is a Slob by Willa Cather

Mark Twain is a Slob by Willa Cather If there is anything which should make an American sick and disgusted at the literary taste of his country, and almost swerve his allegiance to his flag…