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… Whitman’s Compost Walt Whitman in Washington Walt Whitman, Charles … were largely replaced by no more or less than tent hospitals, bivouac avenues, crowds of mixed loyalties, piles of … the lack of care and the degree of despair among soldiers hardly more than boys, he becomes committed to doing …

… I ought to have as many books as I could tote. But it has come to my attention that I have too many books because, as … of reality…. Training ourselves to pay intimate and embodied attention to the very pulse of life within and around … finds silly—to use one of Auden’s favorite words—probably points to a bad or, at least, senseless habit. In other …

… themselves to go from that “different stage” of an almost medieval society to a modern state with a developed economy … found difficult to express. In Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926) he idealized homsexuality as the biblical love of David … voice, the rising and dropping tone which emphasized the points, or what he thought were points, of his pointless …

… for a cottage. Fifty feet below lay a natural harbor. At a comfortable swimming distance from shore were three shoals, … as a single property.) By this time, my grandfather had died, but he had approved her plan. The islands would be … turning, at the age of fifty-nine, to fiction. As Watt points out, only a society such as Defoe’s own, well …

… 9 Sencu Iela Freedom Monument in Riga, Latvia (IStockPhoto.com / Birgit Kutzera) . On the night of August 3, 1944—in … first line of dialogue in Heart of Darkness  is: “And this also,” said Marlow suddenly, “has been one of the dark … was to read this letter to my mother only if my grandfather died. And though it would certainly make for a lovely …