“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”George Eliot aka Mary Ann Evans In 1857, when she was 37 years old , Mary Ann Evans started to use her pen name George Eliot when she published in Blackwood’s Magazine the three stories later included in “Scenes of Clerical Life”.In a letter… Read More The Man Who Claimed To Be George Eliot
Two Lovers Two lovers by a moss-grown spring:They leaned soft cheeks together there,Mingled the dark and sunny hair,And heard the wooing thrushes sing.O budding time!O love’s blest prime! Two wedded from the portal stept:The bells made happy carolings,The air was soft as fanning wings,White petals on the pathway slept.O pure-eyed bride!O tender pride! Two faces… Read More True Love
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”(from the novel Middlemarch) George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans, born on 22 November 1819.She was a Victorian era English poet and novelist who chose that male pseudonym to conceal her gender so that people would take… Read More George Eliot
Sunday Afternoon in Italyby D. H. Lawrence The man and the maid go side by side With an interval of space between; And his hands are awkward and want to hide, She braves it out since she must be seen. When some one passes he drops his head Shading his face in his black felt… Read More Sunday Afternoon in Italy
Poet Alfred Tennyson became Poet Laureate (an eminent poet appointed as a member of the British royal household) on 19 November 1850 after William Wordsworth’s death in April of that year. He held the position until his own death in 1892, the longest tenure of any laureate In 1849 he wrote the long poem “In… Read More Break, Break, Break
I have already published poems on this subject, one by Robert Frost “Fire and Ice” and another by Pat, whose blog is here Here is a much older one, written by Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 –1599), an English poet best known for his epic poem “The Faerie Queene”. This long allegorical poem celebrating the Tudor dynasty… Read More Ice and Fire
Cari amici è con grande gioia che condivido questa notizia appena arrivata. Il mio racconto “AMNESIA: LA LIBERTÀ DI DIMENTICARE” è stato selezionato per essere incluso nell’antologia “RACCONTI LIBERI ” curata da Stefano Andrini (Historica Edizioni)
Kindness glides about my house.Dame Kindness, she is so nice!The blue and red jewels of her rings smokeIn the windows, the mirrorsAre filling with smiles. What is so real as the cry of a child?A rabbit’s cry may be wilderBut it has no soul.Sugar can cure everything, so Kindness says.Sugar is a necessary fluid, Its… Read More Kindness (Sylvia Plath)
Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian writer and professor whose first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), is the most widely read book in modern African literature. He was born on 16 November 1930. Three quotes: “The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them. “ (Things Fall Apart)… Read More Chinua Achebe
“Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least of all who is indifferent about all.” (Lavater) Johann Kaspar Lavater was a Swiss scholar and theologian born on 15 November 1741He was the principal promoter of physiognomy in modern times, the practice of assessing a person’s temperament and character from… Read More Lavater and Physiognomy
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