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Jean McKishnie Blewett - Christmas Conversion

Jean McKishnie Blewett was a Canadian journalist, author and poet. Blewett was a regular contributor to The Globe, a Toronto newspaper and in 1898 became editor of its Homemakers Department. In 1919, assisted by...

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William Butler Yeats - Dolls

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, his earliest volume of verse was published in 1889,...

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Ernest Vincent Wright - When Father Carves the Duck

Ernest Vincent Wright was an American author known for his book Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel which, except for the introduction and a note at the end, did not use the letter «e». The biographical details of his life...

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Madison Cawein - Old Inn

Madison Julius Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. — Summary by...

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Archibald Lampman - In November

Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. «He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets.» The Canadian Encyclopedia says that...

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William Lisle Bowles - On Hearing the Messiah

Bowles came from a line of Church of England clergymen. His great-grandfather Matthew Bowles, grandfather Dr Thomas Bowles and father William Thomas Bowles had all been parish priests. In 1789 he published, in a...

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Bliss Carman - Behind the Arras: A Book of the Unseen

This is a volume of some of Bliss Carman's most beautiful narrative poems. All of the poems share a rather melancholy tone, which Carman uses to bring out beautiful images of feeling. — Summary by Carolin

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Thomas O'Hagan - In The Trenches

Dr. O'Hagan writes with a clear eye, a sane mind, and a sensitive heart. While agreeing in the main with Walter de la Mare, that «every book lives or perishes by virtue or default of its artistic sincerity,»...

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Margaret Steele Anderson - To The Fighting Weak

Margaret Steele Anderson was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1867 and was educated in the public school of Louisville, with special courses at Wellesley College. From 1901 Miss Anderson was Literary Editor of the...

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Susanna Moodie - Twilight Hour

Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time. Her letters and journals contain valuable information about life in...

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William Cullen Bryant - October - A Sonnet

William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Bryant edited the very successful Picturesque America which was published between 1872 and 1874. This...

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Bliss Carman - At Sunrise

Canada has full right to be proud of her poets, a small body though they are; but not only does Mr. Carman stand high and clear above them all—his place (and time cannot but confirm and justify the assertion) is among...

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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