To Mrs. Grover Cleveland, in Washington: Hartford, Nov. 6, 1887. My Dear Madam,—I do not know how it is in the White House, but in this house of ours whenever the minor half of the administration tries to run itself without the help of the major half it gets aground. Last night when I was […]
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Interview with Mary Stone Assistant Editor of Blue Island Review
Interview with Mary Stone Assistant Editor of Blue Island Review Mary Stone’s poetry and prose has appeared or is forthcoming in A Clean Well-Lighted Place, Notes Magazine, Mochila, Coal City Review, Amoskeag, Lingerpost, FutureCycle Poetry, Flint Hills Review, North Central Review, Spring Formal, Canvas and other fine journals. In 2011 she received the Langston Hughes […]
Interview with Missouri Review Editor Michael Nye
Interview with Missouri Review Editor Michael Nye Michael Nye is the former managing editor of River Styx, and has taught creative writing at the University of Missouri, Lindenwood University, and Washington University in St. Louis. His short stories have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, New South, Quiddity, Red Cedar Review, Sou’wester, and South Dakota Review, […]
Interview with Tin House Editor Rob Spillman
Interview with Rob Spillman We were excited and honored that Rob Spillman would take part in our interview series. Mr. Spillman is editor and co-founder of Tin House. The publication is without question one of the best literary magazines in the country. He spoke to us by email. We enjoyed this interview very much. EWR: […]
Rules of Tragic Plot by Aristotle
Rules of Tragic Plot by Aristotle In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in […]
10 Questions with the Editor!
We would like to interview you. We are looking to do interviews with many many editors. We would love to be able to interview each of you one on one, but it is impossible for us. Our time is limited, but we want to hear from you! Interviews with editors is one of the most […]
The Shrinkage of the Planet by Jack London
The Shrinkage of the Planet What a tremendous affair it was, the world of Homer, with its indeterminate boundaries, vast regions, and immeasurable distances. The Mediterranean and the Euxine were illimitable stretches of ocean waste over which years could be spent in endless wandering. On their mysterious shores were the improbable homes of impossible peoples. […]
An English Critic on Mark Twain
An English Critic on Mark Twain An English Critic on Mark Twain: Perhaps the most successful flights of humor of Mark Twain have been descriptions of the persons who did not appreciate his humor at all. We have become familiar with the Californians who were thrilled with terror by his burlesque of a newspaper reporter’s way […]
Shakespeare’s Attitude Toward the Working Classes by Ernest Crosby
Shakespeare’s Attitude Toward the Working Classes by Ernest Crosby “Shakespeare was of us,” cries Browning, in his “Lost Leader,” while lamenting the defection of Wordsworth from the ranks of progress and liberalism—”Milton was for us, Burns, Shelley were with us—they watch from their graves!” There can, indeed, be no question of the fidelity to democracy […]
The Function of the Poet by James Russell Lowell
The Function of the Poet by James Russell Lowell This was the concluding lecture in the course which Lowell read before the Lowell Institute in the winter of 1855. Doubtless Lowell never printed it because, as his genius matured, he felt that its assertions were too absolute, and that its style bore too many marks […]
The Bee by Mark Twain
The Bee by Mark Twain It was Maeterlinck who introduced me to the bee. I mean, in the psychical and in the poetical way. I had had a business introduction earlier. It was when I was a boy. It is strange that I should remember a formality like that so long; it must be nearly […]
On Literature, Arts and Manners of Athenians by Percy Bysshe Shelley
On Literature, Arts and Manners of Athenians by Percy Bysshe Shelley The period which intervened between the birth of Pericles and the death of Aristotle, is undoubtedly, whether considered in itself, or with reference to the effects which it has produced upon the subsequent destinies of civilized man, the most memorable in the history of […]
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 have his way, it becometh adust, and thereby malign and venomous. So ambitious men, if they find the way open […]
Printing Office-Old Brooklyn Printing by Walt Whitman
Printing Office-Old Brooklyn Printing by Walt Whitman After about two years went to work in a weekly newspaper and printing office, to learn the trade. The paper was the “Long Island Patriot,” owned by S. E. Clements, who was also postmaster. An old printer in the office, William Hartshorne, a revolutionary character, who had seen […]
After all, What is Poetry by John Raymond Howard
After all, What is Poetry by John Raymond Howard Considering the immense volume of poetical writing produced, and lost or accumulated, by all nations through the ages, it is of curious interest that no generally accepted definition of the word “Poetry” has ever been made. Of course, all versifiers aim at “poetry”; yet, what is […]