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Articles with keyword "Literature"

Child celebrating Mom's citizenship

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"Informed Patriotism"

NEH celebrates five years of We the People

Lansdowne, the home of saloniere Anne Willing Bingham.

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The Early American Salon

In the manuscript culture of the pre-print age, a lost world of poetry has been rediscovered.

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Of Stillness and Light

With Henry David Thoreau, winter walks can quickly turn into "frolic gambols."

Stein in France with her longtime friend Bernard Faÿ

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The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein

Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?

Plaque with face of Stefan Zeromski

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Żeromski the Magnificent!

The novelist who captured Polish life even as it was changing

Statue full figure

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Property of Tennessee Williams

What a souvenir statue tells us about his writing.

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Mission to Moscow

From Idaho Humanities, in which this account by Irish poet and Fulbright Scholar Kevin Kiely appeared at the request of the council as his two-year stint teaching and researching in Idaho

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Editor's Note, July/August 2011

In this issue we take in the legacies of two celebrated Americans, whose love of country was profoundly qualified. Robert E.

Open book

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The Well-Wrought Textbook

The making of the midcentury English department classic, Understanding Poetry.