Faith, Fiction, Friends

I t was the Roaring Twenties, the age of the Lost Generation, T.S. Eliot’s poetry modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, Hemingway and Fitzgeral...

Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) was a remarkable poet and writer by almost any definition. Born to a wealthy family in New York City, she saw her ...

One of my favorite novels is  Ethan Frome  by  Edith Wharton . I first read it when I was 16, for my high school English class my junior yea...

Way back in high school (that’s way, way back), I always liked the poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). I think it may have been more ...

Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917) has not been one of the better-known poets of World War I. At first glance, this seems puzzling. He s...

Who was John Holmes? I was working on two articles, both about lexicographer Samuel Johnson. One was a literary tour of his house i...