Edgar Alled Poe on Poetry
"To recapitulate, then:-I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is Taste. With the Intellect or with the Conscience, it has only collateral...
View ArticleDear Sweet Amelia
An excerpt from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery describing the heart of Amelia. But there are things, look you, of a finer texture than fur or satin, and all Solomon’s glories, and all the...
View ArticleThackery on Learning to Pray
Describing the not so venerable Mrs. Crawley: Picture to yourself, oh fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her...
View ArticleThackery on Hatred and Consistency
In describing the character and motivations of one Mr. Osborne toward a certain Mr. Sedley: One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated...
View Article
