hugo.<p>The famous poet Robert Frost was born <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> in 1874. Visit the Grammaticus website and check out the following posts dedicated to him and his writings:</p><p>"A Prayer in Spring": <a href="https://grammaticus.blog/2023/05/10/a-prayer-in-spring-by-robert-frost/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grammaticus.blog/2023/05/10/a-</span><span class="invisible">prayer-in-spring-by-robert-frost/</span></a></p><p>Listening tips: The life and works of Robert Frost: <a href="https://grammaticus.blog/2024/03/06/listening-tips-robert-frost/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grammaticus.blog/2024/03/06/li</span><span class="invisible">stening-tips-robert-frost/</span></a></p><p>Book review: "Selected Poems of Robert Frost - Illustrated Edition:" <a href="https://grammaticus.blog/2024/03/27/selected-poems-of-robert-frost/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grammaticus.blog/2024/03/27/se</span><span class="invisible">lected-poems-of-robert-frost/</span></a></p><p>"October:" <a href="https://grammaticus.blog/2022/10/05/robert-frost-october/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grammaticus.blog/2022/10/05/ro</span><span class="invisible">bert-frost-october/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/robertfrost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>robertfrost</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/americanliterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>americanliterature</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/learningenglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learningenglish</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/englishteacher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>englishteacher</span></a></p>
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hugo.<p>With the arrival of <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/spring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spring</span></a>, it’s time for another quarterly <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/ebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ebook</span></a> from the Grammaticus Free Library series: “Four Stories for Spring” by Ellen Robena Field.</p><p>It contains four short stories, with the accompanying vocabulary notes and illustrations designed primarily for English language learners (levels B1 and above).</p><p><a href="https://grammaticus.blog/2025/03/19/free-ebook-four-stories-for-spring/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grammaticus.blog/2025/03/19/fr</span><span class="invisible">ee-ebook-four-stories-for-spring/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/learningenglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learningenglish</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/childrensbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>childrensbooks</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/shortstories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shortstories</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/readingcomprehension" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>readingcomprehension</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/americanliterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>americanliterature</span></a></p>
grammaticus<p><strong>Free ebook: “Four Stories for Spring” by Ellen Robena Field</strong></p><p>Dear friends and followers of the Grammaticus blog,</p><p>With the arrival of spring, it’s time for another quarterly ebook from the <em>Grammaticus Free Library </em>series: “Four Stories for Spring.” </p><p>The author of these stories is Ellen Robena Field (1869–1957), a children’s writer and educator from Bangor, Maine. Nowadays sadly overlooked, she is best known for her collection of short stories “Buttercup Gold and Other Stories”, originally published by the Bangor Kindergarten Association in 1894.</p><p>The ebook here available contains four spring-themed stories from that collection, with the accompanying vocabulary notes and illustrations designed primarily for English language learners (levels B1 and above).</p><p>To download your PDF copy, click on the link below. To browse all the previous G<em>rammaticus Free Library </em>titles, visit the <a href="https://grammaticus.blog/library/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Library</a> section of this website.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/683fhy9x4z3ugdu93gwqj/Four-Stories-for-Spring-by-Ellen-Robena-Field.pdf?rlkey=mzx7nnbwnu4l0aodeuj5gpq6j&st=xrz3s6f5&dl=0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/683fhy9x4z3ugdu93gwqj/Four-Stories-for-Spring-by-Ellen-Robena-Field.pdf?rlkey=mzx7nnbwnu4l0aodeuj5gpq6j&st=xrz3s6f5&dl=0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <p><strong>NOTE</strong></p><p>If you wish to receive new content from the Grammaticus blog in your inbox, please enter your email address in the box below. You can also subscribe to my free monthly <a href="https://grammaticus.curated.co/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Newsletter</a>.</p> <p><strong>COVER IMAGE CREDIT</strong></p><p>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/de/@kiwihug?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kiwihug</a> via <a href="https://unsplash.com/de/fotos/makrofotografie-von-weissen-blumen-Cqkidu1WhqQ?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Unsplash</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://grammaticus.blog/tag/american-literature/" target="_blank">#AmericanLiterature</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://grammaticus.blog/tag/childrens-literature/" target="_blank">#childrenSLiterature</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://grammaticus.blog/tag/ebook/" target="_blank">#ebook</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://grammaticus.blog/tag/ellen-robena-field/" target="_blank">#EllenRobenaField</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://grammaticus.blog/tag/english-literature/" target="_blank">#EnglishLiterature</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://grammaticus.blog/tag/english-vocabulary/" target="_blank">#EnglishVocabulary</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://grammaticus.blog/tag/free-download/" target="_blank">#freeDownload</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://grammaticus.blog/tag/freebie/" target="_blank">#freebie</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://grammaticus.blog/tag/learning-english/" target="_blank">#learningEnglish</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://grammaticus.blog/tag/literature/" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://grammaticus.blog/tag/reading-comprehension/" target="_blank">#readingComprehension</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://grammaticus.blog/tag/reading-skills/" target="_blank">#readingSkills</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://grammaticus.blog/tag/short-stories/" target="_blank">#shortStories</a></p>
skua<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Solidrhone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Solidrhone</span></a></span> <br>Oh come on!</p><p>That brilliance deserves a proper alt-text.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JosephHeller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JosephHeller</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmLit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmLit</span></a></p>
hugo.<p>William Carlos Williams, died <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> in 1963.</p><p>Visit the Grammaticus website and search for resources dedicated to this amazing poet, such as the blog post "Spring Storm." It includes a brief introduction to his writings, as well as a simple vocabulary exercise for English language learners.</p><p><a href="https://grammaticus.blog/2023/04/19/spring-storm-williams/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grammaticus.blog/2023/04/19/sp</span><span class="invisible">ring-storm-williams/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/americanliterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>americanliterature</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/williamcarloswilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>williamcarloswilliams</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/englishteacher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>englishteacher</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/learningenglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learningenglish</span></a></p>
hugo.<p>Reading this poem, you immediately find yourself in a wintery nature setting. What T. W. Higginson describes is just a fleeting moment: a wonderful snapshot captured in words.</p><p>Click on this link to read "The February Hush": <a href="https://grammaticus.blog/2024/02/14/the-february-hush-by-higginson/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grammaticus.blog/2024/02/14/th</span><span class="invisible">e-february-hush-by-higginson/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/americanliterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>americanliterature</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/February" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>February</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/februaryvibes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>februaryvibes</span></a></p>
hugo.<p>Kate Chopin - born <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> in 1850 - was one of the most important 19th century American women writers. Of Louisiana Creole background, she was an author ahead of her time, often writing on difficult and controversial topics in a unique narrative style.</p><p>On the Grammaticus website, you can download your free PDF copy of her short story A Morning Walk, which includes vocabulary notes for English language learners.</p><p>To access this and other available ebooks, visit <a href="https://grammaticus.blog/library/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">grammaticus.blog/library/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/KateChopin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KateChopin</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/EnglishTeacher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishTeacher</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/learningenglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learningenglish</span></a></p>
World History Encyclopedia<p>Mark Twain is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), an American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MarkTwain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarkTwain</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HistoryFact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryFact</span></a> <a href="https://whe.to/ci/1-23964-en/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">whe.to/ci/1-23964-en/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Robert Dale Parker<p>Today is publication day for my new book, The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression, from Oxford University Press. Available for free at many academic libraries. And until Feb 6 the 1st chapter is available for free here:</p><p><a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/59025/chapter/496226844" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">academic.oup.com/book/59025/ch</span><span class="invisible">apter/496226844</span></a></p><p>Also available from the publisher for 30% off here:</p><p><a href="https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/authors/promotion/9780197785065-discount.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/ac</span><span class="invisible">ademic/pdf/authors/promotion/9780197785065-discount.pdf</span></a></p><p>For more about the book, see</p><p><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-literature-of-extreme-poverty-in-the-great-depression-9780197785065?cc=us&lang=en&" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">global.oup.com/academic/produc</span><span class="invisible">t/the-literature-of-extreme-poverty-in-the-great-depression-9780197785065?cc=us&lang=en&</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poverty</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fiction</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> </p><p> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/litstudies" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>litstudies</span></a></span></p>
Jonathan Emmesedi<p>Speaking of Fitzgerald, here is a link to one of his finest short stories, "Babylon Revisited":</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.net.au/fsf/BABYLON-REVISITED.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gutenberg.net.au/fsf/BABYLON-R</span><span class="invisible">EVISITED.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/FScottFitzgerald" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FScottFitzgerald</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/Fitzgerald" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fitzgerald</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/USLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USLiterature</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Books</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/ShortStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ShortStories</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BabylonRevisited" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BabylonRevisited</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/20thCenturyLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>20thCenturyLiterature</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/20thCenturyLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>20thCenturyLiterature</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a></p>
Jonathan Emmesedi<p>Purge your mind of jazz age cliches and then reread...</p><p><a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/01/how-we-misread-the-great-gatsby" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newstatesman.com/culture/books</span><span class="invisible">/2025/01/how-we-misread-the-great-gatsby</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/TheGreatGatsby" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheGreatGatsby</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FScottFitzgerald" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FScottFitzgerald</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fitzgerald" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fitzgerald</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/USLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/20thCenturyLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>20thCenturyLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/1920s" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>1920s</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a></p>
hugo.<p>The poem presented in my latest blog post first appeared in William Carlos Williams’ book titled “Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems”, published in 1921. Like many other of his works, it’s wonderfully simple and minimalist: the poet uses an extremely common image only to transform it into something delightfully rich and filled with meaning.</p><p><a href="https://grammaticus.blog/2025/01/22/winter-trees-by-william-carlos-williams/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grammaticus.blog/2025/01/22/wi</span><span class="invisible">nter-trees-by-william-carlos-williams/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/williamcarloswilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>williamcarloswilliams</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/americanliterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>americanliterature</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/learningenglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learningenglish</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/englishteacher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>englishteacher</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Winter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Winter</span></a></p>
Cheshire<p>The power of friendship: How a letter helped create an American bestseller about antisemitism<br><a href="https://theconversation.com/the-power-of-friendship-how-a-letter-helped-create-an-american-bestseller-about-antisemitism-246765" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/the-power-</span><span class="invisible">of-friendship-how-a-letter-helped-create-an-american-bestseller-about-antisemitism-246765</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LauraHobson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LauraHobson</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GentlemansAgreement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GentlemansAgreement</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antisemitism</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a></p><p>"It was important for those Americans who chose to ignore, to look away from antisemitism"</p>
hugo.<p>On Edgar Allan Poe's birthday 🎂 (born OTD in 1809), you can visit my blog and read a post on his poem "A Dream Within a Dream."</p><p>The post contains a vocabulary exercise for English language learners.</p><p><a href="https://grammaticus.blog/2023/01/18/poe-dream/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grammaticus.blog/2023/01/18/po</span><span class="invisible">e-dream/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/edgarallanpoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>edgarallanpoe</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/americanliterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>americanliterature</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/learningenglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learningenglish</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/englishteacher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>englishteacher</span></a></p>
Jonathan Emmesedi<p>🧵 2/4</p><p>Choosing an alternative is more difficult than it seems. Most of us can easily come up with books that we wish had been assigned at school, or that we think are of such value that students would benefit in some way from reading them. </p><p>Deciding whether such titles are suitable for assignment to secondary school students is another and more difficult task, one that I am not well qualified to undertake because I am not a high school teacher by profession.</p><p>Nevertheless I would guess that one important consideration is a books’s teachability. What makes a book teachable probably depends not only on the nature of the text itself, but also on the availability to the literature teacher of critical literature and pedagogical materials. I would imagine that “Of Mice and Men” is highly teachable on both counts. The text is short and the language relatively simple, making reading the book a feasible assignment for less academic students, while I am fairly sure there are shelves full of material that will help teachers and students with literary analysis of the work.</p><p>However, considerations of race and gender can also determine readability, as this piece from a teacher in Oregon demonstrates:</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/OfMiceAndMen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OfMiceAndMen</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RaisinInTheSun" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RaisinInTheSun</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/EnglishTeaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnglishTeaching</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a></p><p><a href="https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/of-mice-and-marginalization/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rethinkingschools.org/articles</span><span class="invisible">/of-mice-and-marginalization/</span></a></p>
Jonathan Emmesedi<p>🧵 1/4</p><p>Recent discussion about dropping John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” as an English literature GCSE set book because of racial slurs in the text and its depiction of a black character got me thinking.</p><p>Surely it is right to listen seriously to the complaints of black students about the book.<br /> <br />Racism, though, is not the only reason that “Of Mice and Men” should be retired. The book’s failings should prompt a search for better novels to assign to British school students.</p><p>I find “Of Mice and Men” to be not moving but mawkish. Steinbeck foreshadows the end of Lennie with the shooting of an old dog, then jerks the reader’s tears by presenting George’s dispatch of Lennie as something like the putting down of an animal. We are supposed to feel that catch in the throat reliably produced by scenes of the last moments of long sick children or pets, yet with that sentiment supposedly endowed with profundity because the death is of one man at the hands of another; we have learned something about Love and the Human Condition!</p><p>Actually, we have learned nothing of the sort. Instead, we have seen how an author uses intellectual disability as a device to reduce what might have been a complex character to little more than a cipher, but a cipher designed to evoke an emotional response to melodrama, a good cry providing at once catharsis and a self-satisfied sense that one is endowed with a morally superior sensibility on account of having had that good cry . Steinbeck noted how close his novella was to the script for a motion picture; we should note how closely here he embraced the values of Hollywood at its most kitschy. And let’s not even get started on “Of Mice and Men” and women...</p><p>So what might replace “Of Mice and Men” ?</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/OfMiceAndMen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OfMiceAndMen</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GCSEEnglishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GCSEEnglishLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steinbeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Steinbeck</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Books</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge922jn1z8o" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cge922jn</span><span class="invisible">1z8o</span></a></p>
Robert Dale Parker<p>We interrupt this week’s snowstorms to announce that my new book, The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression, due out Jan 31, is now available online for free at most academic libraries, and until Feb 6 Chapter 1 is free online for everyone at <a href="https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/authors/promotion/9780197785065-chapter.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/ac</span><span class="invisible">ademic/pdf/authors/promotion/9780197785065-chapter.pdf</span></a>.</p><p>For a discount see <a href="https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/authors/promotion/9780197785065-discount.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/ac</span><span class="invisible">ademic/pdf/authors/promotion/9780197785065-discount.pdf</span></a> but the online version is free.</p><p>@LitStudies </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fiction</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poverty</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a></p>
Jonathan Emmesedi<p>"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" did not make me laugh, but it's useful reading for anybody who wants to better their understanding of the USA of the 1920s. </p><p> I might give Loos's autobiographical writing a go at some point. </p><p>Cast of Thousands: The Life, Wit, and Work of Anita Loos | The New York Public Library</p><p><a href="https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/03/18/anita-loos-life-wit-work" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nypl.org/blog/2021/03/18/anita</span><span class="invisible">-loos-life-wit-work</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AnitaLoos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AnitaLoos</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GentlemenPreferBlondes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GentlemenPreferBlondes</span></a></p>
Of Bookish Things<p>Inside the Terrifying True Story of the Sperm Whale That Sank the Whale-Ship ‘Essex’ and Inspired Herman Melville’s ‘Moby-Dick’</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Whaling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Whaling</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MarineHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MarineHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanNovels" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanNovels</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Herman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Herman</span></a> Melville <a href="https://c.im/tags/MobyDick" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MobyDick</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BookIllustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BookIllustration</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BookArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BookArt</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/19thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>19thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@books" class="u-url mention">@<span>books</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/inside-the-terrifying-true-story-of-the-sperm-whale-that-sank-the-whale-ship-essex-and-inspired-herman-melvilles-moby-dick-180985362/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/</span><span class="invisible">inside-the-terrifying-true-story-of-the-sperm-whale-that-sank-the-whale-ship-essex-and-inspired-herman-melvilles-moby-dick-180985362/</span></a></p>
Of Bookish Things<p>Hear ye! Hear ye! Two Roads Diverged in The Woods, and the <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanPoet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanPoet</span></a> took the road less travelled by. You can buy the broadsheet from my brother-in-law for two shillings!</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/TownCrierASongOrPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TownCrierASongOrPoem</span></a> <br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/HashtagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HashtagGames</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanPoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanPoetry</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RobertFrost" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RobertFrost</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PoetryReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoetryReading</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Presentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Presentation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Art</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3esjTgR2W2E" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=3esjTgR2W2</span><span class="invisible">E</span></a></p>
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