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Published around 1900, One Thousand And One Riddles With A Few Thrown In was an anonymous collection of poems and logic puzzles, many of which took the form of seemingly simple single-line questions.
Gibson's picture book inspired by those precious garments, Three Dresses, has won the $100,000 top prize at this year's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (VPLAs), as well as the $25,000 award ...
He also provides exposure to fellow poets annually at Rockwood during April, National Poetry Month. At 1 p.m. Saturday, April 26, he will be sharing the stage with Tara Elliott from the Eastern ...
One of Ahlquist’s favorite Christmas poems is G.K. Chesterton’s “The Wise Men.” “It’s about the Wise Men walking through the rain and snow, and … by the end of the poem, we are ...
At the time the poem was published, Moore was a resident of New York. After retiring from teaching, Moore purchased a Victorian house at 25 Catherine Street in Newport, RI in 1850 and became a summer ...
The Write Out Loud organization is presenting “A Victorian Christmas,” a live performance of reading, poetry and music, inside the Queen Anne Victorian’s music room. There are two matinee ...
The explosion of printing in the 16th century saw the advent of the broadside ballad: cheap editions of popular songs, including countless versions of carols and Christmas poems of all kinds, a ...
These Victorian paper projects will reduce unnecessary spending, and as gifts they’re much more personal and meaningful. Seven Victorian paper craft projects that could cut your Christmas ...
It could even have a festive theme: there are lots of novels, stories and poems about Christmas in the public domain to choose from. You could print your anthology at home, or hand-write it for that ...
The “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in The Sentinel, a newspaper based in Troy, New York. An instant success, ...
Discover how a 4th-century poem by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius to respond to Christian heresies evolved into “Of the Father’s Love Begotten” by the 19th century.