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Tag Archives: Nature and Culture
Autumn people and autmn thoughts
October has been my favorite time of year as far back as I can remember. I have scores of memories from the fall, ranging from Halloween nights as a child to tromping through Henniker New Hampshire with my aunt and … Continue reading
“Season of Mists”
Tomorrow is the first day of Fall, (the Autumnal Equinox) despite Florida’s humid heat. And I’m teaching John Keats next week. So, in celebration of both facts here is Keats’s lovely poem “To Autumn.” I’m going to read it aloud … Continue reading
The Tree of Life, or What It Really Needed was More Dinosaurs
William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, famously, began as an image of a particular moment: It began with a mental picture. I didn’t realize at the time it was symbolical. The picture was of the muddy seat of a … Continue reading
Tintern Abbey
I mentioned Wordsworth a fair bit in one of my recent entries. The major touchstone we kept coming back to in the 19th-century survey class I taught last semester was “Tintern Abbey.” More than any of his other poetic work, … Continue reading
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Tagged Nature and Culture, Reference materials, Romanticism, William Wordsworth
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Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
I am an amateur gardener, and by amateur I mean novice. And by novice I mean newbie, and by newbie I mean, well, you get the point. I’ve recently begun working at the Temple Terrace Community Garden and it has … Continue reading
The Audacity of Cities
The T rattled down Beacon Street, that electrical whirr driving into a higher pitch as it accelerated. With a clatter and a dinging of its bell it slowed and then stopped: the lurching progress of the train when it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Nature and Culture, Victorianism
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