Today in the year 1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned. Whoa buddy. That infallible source does not disappoint today. Here’s the skinny from the first paragraph: Percy Bysshe Shelley (/bɪʃ/ (listen) BISH;[1][2] 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major EnglishRomantic poets, widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language.[3] A radical in his poetry as
Now this is interesting. Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon, and was the youngest of 10 children; his parents divorced shortly after his birth. that infallible source First of all, he was born in 1852. How common was divorce is 1852? A quick tour of the internet suggests five percent of marriages ended in
A few noteworthy things happened since last we opened The Pocket Univ. Guide to Daily Reading (1924). Hellen Keller was born (1880); Harriet Beecher Stowe was born (1896); A couple of people I’ve never heard of were born; Nathaniel Hawthorne was born (July 4, 1804). We turned the page while we were celebrating Independence Day.
Nothing happened today. I’m serious. If you know of anything that happened today, let us know. Of course, when you read this 24 hours from my now, who the heck knows what may have happened? Daily Readings June 23 Longfellow’s The Day is Done The Beleaguered City The Bridge Whittier’s Ichabod Maud Muller Interesting note
Born today in the year 1888, Alan Seeger. He died in WWI. Pete Seeger’s uncle. His most famous poem is the first Daily Reading. That in fallible source tells me it was JFK’s favorite. Mysterious ways & all. Daily Readings June 22 I have a Rendezvous with Death [published posthumously] O. Henry’s Gift of the
All of today’s reading are by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author of the historically wildly inaccurate poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride.” But we won’t hold that against him. (Go to the link if you like American history. More fun stuff.) Daily Readings June 20 Hymn to the Night The Light of Stars Daybreak Seaweed The Village Blacksmith
Today in the year 1885, Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton, died. Ah. Once again, infallible source, I am not particularly curious about about the man’s perverted tendencies. Why? What does it add? Wait. You’re telling me that he had ____ and then you’re telling me that he “was a persistent suitor of Florence Nightingale (who finally refused
I The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea green boat,They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five pound note.The Owl looked up to the stars above, And sang to a small guitar,‘O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love, What a
Born this day in 1819, Charles Kingsley. Kingsley is the author of The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, published in 1863, two years before Alice in Wonderland. The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature (1984, 1995) has an entry on both Kingsley and The Water-Babies. He was made a Canon of Westminster. Surely that
Daily Reading June 3 Hood’s “It Was Not in the Winter” Lamb’s Letters Sweet. It was not in the Winter It was not in the Winter Our loving lot was cast; It was the Time of Roses,— We plucked them as we passed! [more] And now to Charles Lamb who, I may have mentioned, I
Poetry and criticism being by no means the universal concern of the world, but of idle men who write in their closets, and of idle men who read there. “the Author’s Preface” to An Essay On Criticism, Alexander Pope I was traveling around the shelves this afternoon and I came upon Sir John Lubbock’s Hundred
On this day in 1819, Walt Whitman was born. Regarded as one of America’s greatest poets, Walt Whitman joins the ranks of Dante, Shakespeare, Virgil and Homer in terms of artistry and exceptional skill in the written words. https://waltwhitman.com It seems a bit… early to be making the second claim, don’t you think? Daily Reading May 31
The calendar in the Pocket University Guide to Daily Reading is based on is 1922’s. In 1922, Memorial Day fell on May 30th. You’ll recall we read Hale’s The Man Without a Country last Monday. Today’s Daily Readings are from May 25th. Born on May 25 in the year 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Daily Readings
Today we turn the page. All the best experiences of humanity, folded, saved, freighted to us here! Some of these tiny ships we call Old and New Testaments, Homer, Æschylus, Plato, Juvenal, etc. Precious Minims! — Walt Whitman Born this day in 1779, Thomas Moore. Upon Byron’s death, Moore acquired all of Byron’s notes and
Born this day in 1799, Thomas Hood. An English social protest poet, though one mention I came across yesterday (when I began this) said he wasn’t political. Can’t remember which one. Daily Readings May 23 “Flowers“ “I Remember, I remember“ “The Song of the Shirt“ “The Bridge of Sighs“ “The Dream of Eugene Aram“ “The
Today we turned the page. At this day, as much company as I have kept, and as much as I love it, I love reading better. Alexander Pope Before we being today’s discussion of the Daily Readings, let me just put it out there– for all the world to see– that I really like Mr.
Once again, nothing happened today. I beg to differ. Today in the year 1474, Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua, was born. (From Mary E. Hazeltine. Judith K. Sollenberger, ed. Anniversaries and Holidays: A Calendar of Days and How to Observe Them Second Edition, Completely Revised. American Library Association, Chicago. 1965.) The crappy old book tells me
On this day in 1828, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born. Something a bit different and more up Daughter C’s alley than mine, but I’ll give it a go. DISPLAY CAPTION This work was executed while Rossetti and other artists were decorating the Oxford Union with medievalist murals. In Oxford, Rossetti saw Jane Burden, later Mrs
Born today in the year 1855, George Edward Woodberry. That infallible source never ceases to amaze. This is one of the strangest biographical sketches I have ever read. The DDG search results are odd, too. DDG returned nine sites on the first page. That infallible source was #1, but one-third of the hits are quotation
Another day on which nothing of note happened. No one was born, died, baptized, disappeared, imprisoned… . Boring. Daily Readings May 8 Shakespeare’s Sonnets 13:184-195 Peabody’s “Fortune and Men’s Eyes” Josephine Preston Peabody’s Fortune and Men’s Eyes— A Play in One Act– begins with an epigraph, the first line of Sonnet xxix. When, in disgrace
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