Thing Finder

In Memory of W. B. Yeats by W. H. Auden I He disappeared in the dead of winter: The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted,...

In picking up a couple of books on hold at one of the branch libraries, I stumbled across a library book sale - always a delight to which I ...

It seems sometimes, that growing older simply means filling in the blanks. I have long heard the catch-phrase that if God did not exist you...

The Need of Being Versed in Country Things by Robert Frost The house had gone to bring again To the midnight sky a sunset glow. Now th...

Well this is just very interesting as I have never seen it alluded to anywhere else. I am in the midst of doing some research trying to pin...

Perusing Erik Durschmeid's The Hinge Factor (some interesting historical episodes but a bit over-written), I came across the famous inci...

In this week's New Yorker , October 19, 2009, there is an article, The Defiant Ones , by Daniel Zalewski. As is common in articles of t...

From Araltas , an heraldry store. Corrigenda - A list of things to be corrected. (in a book) Cui dono lepidum novum libellum? - To whom ...

I have not ever thought of Robert Frost as a particularly political poet and I don't suppose he necessarily was. He famously wrote and ...

After a week of hard rains, flash floods, flood warnings, and continual drizzle, this morning presents a different prospect. Winter is comi...