"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
“Wan the maiden was,
Of saintly paleness, and there seem’d to dwell
In the strong beauties of her countenance
Something that was not earthly.”
Southey’s Joan of Arc.
“The clock has toll’d; and, hark! the bell
Of death beats slow.”— Mason’s Elegies.
The novel comes from Tales of the Dead (1813), translated by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson, and it was penned by Friedrich August Schulze. You can read it on my Patreon.
A charming collection of tales on the sea in various forms, curated by Harrier Sanders, all delightful if a bit too heterogeneous for my taste. You go feom tales of sailors (“The Captain’s Arm”, “Hornblower and the Widow McCool”) to tales in which the sea
Jane Hirshfield is an American poet, essayist, and translator, widely admired for work that bridges lyric poetry, meditation, ecology, and philosophy. She’s also known as a lucid critic of poetry and has written influential essays on how poems work and why they matter. Ten Windows:
Annie Dillard is an American writer best known for her lyrical and philosophical essays about nature, attention, and spiritual life. Her most famous book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. It’s a work of made up of connected essays and
A charming collection of tales on the sea in various forms, curated by Harrier Sanders, all delightful if a bit too heterogeneous for my taste. You go feom tales of sailors (“The Captain’s Arm”, “Hornblower and the Widow McCool”) to tales in which the sea
Jane Hirshfield is an American poet, essayist, and translator, widely admired for work that bridges lyric poetry, meditation, ecology, and philosophy. She’s also known as a lucid critic of poetry and has written influential essays on how poems work and why they matter. Ten Windows:
Annie Dillard is an American writer best known for her lyrical and philosophical essays about nature, attention, and spiritual life. Her most famous book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. It’s a work of made up of connected essays and
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