Twenty-three pocket-sized volumes of short readings across all literary genre. Volume XXIII is the Guide which suggests two to five selections for each day.
Do not read Dante Rossetti’s “My Sister Sleeps.” Thackeray’s “The Mahogany Tree” is pleasant. “Elegy.” Interesting that Lamb died in 1834, yet “To the Sister of Elia” was written in 1837. It’s fairly short–five verses. Hard to think also of Mary outliving her brother so long. She died in 1847. I don’t think I’ve read …
George Santayana born on this date in 1863. Daily Readings: The Shadowed Star BY MARY MACMILLANCopyright, 1913, by Stewart & Kidd Company. All rights reserved. CASTA WOMAN, the mother.AN OLD WOMAN, the grandmother.TWO GIRLS, the daughters.A MESSENGER BOY.A NEIGHBOR.ANOTHER NEIGHBOR. [A very bare room in a tenement house, uncarpeted, the boards beingmuch worn, and from …
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If you await the Daily readings with bated breath, sorry for the delay this morning. Charles Wolfe born on this date in 1791. Daily Reading: Copy “Davis’s Souls.” Paste. Search. Ah, The Internet. That Infallible Source: Soul’s father, “Dr. Richard W. Solberg, was a Lutheran minister, professor of History and Political Science….” Soul’s younger sister, whose name …
Souls Everywhere | Guide to Daily Reading 12/14/22 Read More »
Nothing happened today and I believe that is correct. Daily Reading: The Most Famous Senate Speech Summary below from Senate dot gov. This is Webster’s Second Reply To Hayne. Full text of the debate plus more background here. January 26, 1830 The debate began simply enough, centering on the seemingly prosaic subjects of tariff and …
“I have met the occasion, not sought it” | Guide to Daily Reading 12/11/22 Read More »
Emily Dickinson was “called back” on this date in 1830. born on this date in 1830.* *hangs head in shame. how embarrassing. Daily readings: American Authors 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of America Literature. Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft. The H.W. Wilson Company, New York. 1977. 1st 1938.
Stephen Phillips died on this date in 1915. Stephen Phillips (28 July 1864 – 9 December 1915) was an English poet and dramatist, who enjoyed considerable popularity early in his career. That Infallible Source Daily Reading: English history day! The poem is not too long, and worth a read. Scanned pages from A Short History of England Revised …
Christina Georgina Rossetti born on this date in 1830. Daily Readings: Up-Hill BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place? A roof for when …
“A Christmas Carol” | Guide to Daily Reading 12/5/22 Read More »
R.H. Barham born this date in 1788. A Jackdaw–> Daily Reading: The Jackdaw of Rheims The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal’s chair! Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there; Many a monk, and many a friar, Many a knight, and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,— In sooth a goodly …
In climes beyond the solar road,
Where shaggy forms o’er ice-built mountains roam,
The Muse has broke the twilight-gloom
To cheer the shiv’ring native’s dull abode.
COLONEL MULBERRY SELLERS was in his “library,” which was his “drawing-room,” and was also his “picture gallery,” and likewise his “workshop.” Sometimes he called it by one of these names, sometimes by another, according to occasion and circumstance. He was constructing what seemed to be some kind of a frail mechanical toy, and was apparently very much interested in his work. He was a white-headed man now…
