If there is anything which should make an American sick and disgusted at the literary taste of...
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Discover Leo Tolstoy's scathing critique of William Shakespeare's works. In this remarkable 1906 essay, one literary giant...
The Art of Fiction by Henry James: I should not have affixed so comprehensive a title to...
This is Yeats meeting Wilde is probably one of the biggest literary meetings in history, but we...
This is a wonderfully short piece written by Walt Whitman. Honestly the more you know about Whitman...
Twain's candid letter to Howells reveals his sharp literary opinions on Poe and Austen, showcasing his iconic...
VIRTUE is like a rich stone, best plain set; and surely virtue is best, in a body...
"All talk on modern poetry, by people who know," wrote Mr. Carl Sandburg in Poetry, "ends with...
Whitman records their last meeting in journal entries are below. They are fascinating if you are a...
Once again we have found a quip from Twain that we feel needs to be highlighted in...
The beautiful but barren Hymettus—the whole coast of Attica, her hills and mountains, Pentelicus, Anchesmus, Philopappus, etc.,...
The Shakespeare society of New York, which is really about the only useful literary organization in this...
I have just return'd from an old forest haunt, where I love to go occasionally away from...
In 1857 Dickens is believe to have taken these walks. He walked the streets of London...
This essay is a fascinating piece of writing that takes a look, by one of histories...
