Tag: Literature

  • A Saturday Woman Writer, Marianne Moore.

    Poetry “I too , dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in it afterall, a place for the genuine.” The original Poetry had 29 lines which Marianne Moore excised, retaining only the first three lines. Those three…

  • XLII- Sonnets From the Portuguese By Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

    XLII- Sonnets From the Portuguese By Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

    My future will not copy fair my past — I wrote that once, and thinking at my side My ministering life-angel justified The word by his appealing look upcast To the white throne of God, I turned at last, And there, instead, saw thee, not unallied To angels in thy soul! Then I, long tried…