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Portrait of Solita Solano by Berenice Abbott, circa 1920
[Alternative Muses] Writerly Style: This Photo of Solita Solano Has Everything…
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Tag Archives: Dead Writers
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[Book Nerd Links] Four Interesting Bookish Articles
- Cool Girls Do It Better: On Kim Gordon’s Juicy, Modest Memoir, ‘Girl in a Band’ [Flavorwire]
- 20 Female Harlem Renaissance Writers You Should Know [Flavorwire]
- Victor Hugo’s Drawings [The Paris Review]
- Alice Neel’s Brothers Karamazov [The Paris Review]
Writers in Art: W.B. Yeats, 1896
W.B. Yeats, my first poetic love:
Portrait of W.B. Yeats by his father John Butler Yeats, 1896
[Alternative Muses] Birthday Mashup: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/Ellen Terry
“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart.”-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (born 27 February 1807)
Ellen Terry (born 27 February 1847)
Writers in Art: Portrait of Leonid Andreyev by Ilya Repin, 1905
Portrait of Leonid Andreyev by Ilya Repin, 1905:
Portrait of Leonid Andreyev by Ilya Repin, 1905
Happy Birthday, Mr. Poet!
W.H. Auden–one of the poets who first made me love poetry–was born on 21 February 1907.
W.H. Auden
“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”-W.H. Auden (New Year Letter)
“Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.”-W.H. Auden
Shopping for the Bookworm: E is for Eliot, George
E is for Eliot, George:
Silas Marner Pendant by Library Shortcake. $16.00
[Book Nerd Links] Literary Cliques
Ten Years Gone: Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller died on 10 February 2005.
“The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order–for meaning.”-Arthur Miller
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