"I felt myself mysteriously drawn towards him.... I'll try a pagan friend since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.... [He asked] whether we were again to be bedfellows. I told him yes, whereat I thought he looked pleased."
This week's #poetry post presents Thomas Wentworth Higginson's 'The February Hush'. It includes a simple vocabulary exercise intended for English language learners.
Just in time for the holidays, my latest ebook release is "The Silver Hen", a lovely 19th century Christmas story written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. The ebook comes with vocabulary notes for English language learners and some vocabulary exercises.
Once again, Houghton will celebrate Emily Dickinson’s birthday with a cake baked according to her own handwritten recipe found in our collections. Modern Books and Manuscripts Assistant Johnna Purchase talks about her experience making it—you can try it for yourself on December 8th. https://sites.harvard.edu/houghtonmodern/2023/11/17/baking-emily-dickinsons-black-cake/
It's great to see the manuscript for Dickinson's #cake#recipe, which looks so much like the manuscripts for her #poems.
And in case you're wondering, I once had lunch with the late #poet Richard Eberhart who recounted talking to an elderly man from Amherst who recounted that when he was a tyke Dickinson would bake him #cookies and lower them to him through her upstairs window.
Our selected edition of Letters from an American Farmer is just one of many teaching editions featuring material drawn from the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American Literature!
This short, accessible edition combines a selection of the most important and engaging sections of Crèvecoeur’s work with a focused selection of background contextual material.