2016-12-12 16:00
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2016-12-09 16:01
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZFor people who wish to be left alone and to go abo… Read More
2016-12-05 16:00
A Song for Saint Nicholas(from Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates: 1865)Welcome, friend! St. Nicholas, welcome!Bring no rod for us to-night!While our voices bid thee welcome,Every heart with… Read More
2016-12-02 16:00
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZIt’s a characteristic of the big city that there… Read More
2016-11-28 16:00
The Thrush(from Last Poems: 1918)When Winter’s ahead,What can you read in NovemberThat you read in AprilWhen Winter’s dead?I hear the thrush, and I seeHim alone at the end of the… Read More
2016-11-25 16:00
Click on the index card to enlarge it!2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZThe characte… Read More
2016-11-21 16:00
Thanksgiving(from Advent Days and Poems of Remembrance: 1902)The Autumn hills are golden at the top, And rounded as a poet's silver rhyme;The mellow days are ruby rip… Read More
2016-11-18 16:00
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZDomestic abuse is a sad reality and even in modern west… Read More
2016-11-16 16:00
Since there were five Fridays in November 2013, I had the rare pleasure to present five gorgeous reads on my blog. All of them I carefully chose for Rose City Reader’s European Reading… Read More
2016-11-14 16:00
November. A Sonnet(from Poems: 1854)Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun!One mellow smile through the soft vapoury air,Ere, o'er the frozen earth, the loud winds run,Or snows are sifte… Read More
2016-11-11 16:00
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZWomen in a strictly patriarchal system always used to h… Read More
2016-11-09 16:00
When a Woman Loves a Man: The Jib Door by Marlen Haushofer It’s a well-known truth that love has the potential to make blind for anything unpleasant involved and at all times writ… Read More
2016-11-07 16:35
Moonlight (from Lyra Australis, or Attempts to Sing in a Strange Land: 1854)Shine on, thou lovely moon, shine ever! While, like a playful child and shy,Yon restless… Read More
2016-11-04 17:07
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZLike it or not, in our modern western world we are… Read More
2016-10-31 16:00
The Hag(from Hesperides: 1648) The Hag is astride, This night for to ride;The Devill and shee together: Through thick… Read More
2016-10-28 17:32
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZWithout doubt when a baby is born, most parents hope th… Read More
2016-10-26 15:00
Paul Gaughin (1848-1903), via Wikimedia CommonsLe Joueur de Guitare, Portrait de Francisco Durrio, c. 1900, oil on canvas 90 × 72 cm private collection, LondonSince I’m participa… Read More
2016-10-24 15:00
Herbststimmung(aus Gedichte: 1882)Ein endlos grauer Regentag...Die letzten Blätter fallen –Wie traumverloren hör’ ich SchlagUm Schlag der Uhr verhallen.Wem jemals Lieb… Read More
2016-10-22 11:42
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZAt one point or another in life most people look b… Read More
2016-10-19 15:00
This month three years ago, the last review for My Mediterranean Reading Summer 2013 (»»» read my summary post) went online. It was dedicated to the contemporary Greek nove… Read More
2016-10-17 15:00
Ballade of the Optimist(from New Collected Rhymes: 1905)Heed not the folk who sing or sayIn sonnet sad or sermon chill,“Alas, alack, and well-a-day,This round world’s but a bitte… Read More
2016-10-14 15:04
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZFrom afar Europe seems to many a continent of marv… Read More
2016-10-12 15:00
The Decomposition of a Musical Brain: Ravel. A Novel by Jean EchenozThere are melodies so unique that it’s enough to hear their first notes to know what is coming. Without doubt the Bo… Read More
2016-10-10 15:00
The Fall of the Leaf(from The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon: 1881)Earnest and sad the solemn tale That the sighing winds give back,Scatt'ring the leaves with mournf… Read More
2016-10-07 15:00
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZJust like the body ages and changes with time, emo… Read More
2016-10-04 15:40
Autumn: A Dirge(from Posthumous Poems: 1824)1.The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing,The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying,And the YearOn the earth her death-be… Read More
2016-09-30 15:00
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZEvery war necessarily leaves painful and indelible… Read More
2016-09-26 15:00
Flowers in the Dark(from Verses: 1916)Late in the evening, when the room had grownToo hot and tiresome with its flaring lightAnd noise of voices, I stole out aloneInto the darkness of the su… Read More
2016-09-24 13:46
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZWith refugees from Muslim countries streaming to E… Read More
2016-09-21 15:00
My September stops on the literary journey around the Mediterranean Sea that I undertook during the summer of 2013 were Croatia, France, Syria, Italy, and a yacht cruising half of the world… Read More
2016-09-19 15:00
I Rose from Dreamless Hours (from Forty-Two Poems: 1911)I rose from dreamless hours and sought the morn That beat upon my window : from the sill I watched sweet lands, where Autumn light new… Read More
2016-09-16 15:00
Click on the index card to enlarge it!2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZFor centurie… Read More
2016-09-14 15:00
The Variety of Standards of Human Behaviour: Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict Confronted with other cultures or just life-styles we all tend to be rather judgemental classifying the one… Read More
2016-09-12 15:00
The Indian(from Poems: 1802)Alone, unfriended, on a foreign shore,Behold an hapless, melancholy maid,Begging her scanty fare from door to door,With piteous voice, and humbly bended head.Alas… Read More
2016-09-09 15:00
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZIn August 1945 the USA used their “pretty terrifi… Read More
2016-09-05 15:00
Szeptember végén(a könyvből Osszes költemények: 1847)Még nyílnak a völgyben a kerti virágok,Még zöldel a nyár… Read More
2016-09-02 15:00
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZThe first half of the twentieth century saw many change… Read More
2016-08-31 15:00
Earlier this month I read a review of Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell on Stephanie Jane’s Literary Flits and it brought to my attention that the Bookcrossers’ group on GOODR… Read More
2016-08-29 15:00
A Voyage in the Rocking Chair(from Whisper!: 1893)Rocking Chair (courtesy of Waylin/pixabay)A quaint, old room, full of firelight glow: Warm glint and gleam, a shadow… Read More
2016-08-29 13:22
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZWe all know – if not from own experience, th… Read More
2016-08-22 15:00
On Summer(from The Hope of Liberty. Containing a Number of Poetical Pieces: 1829)Esteville fire begins to burn;The auburn fields of harvest rise;The torrid flames again return,And thunders r… Read More
2016-08-20 10:33
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZUndeniably, every war affects the civilian population i… Read More
2016-08-17 15:37
On my literary summer tour of three years ago (»»» see the summary of My Mediterranean Reading Summer 2013), my August reads – three classics and two contemporary nov… Read More
2016-08-15 15:00
To A Lady Who Said It Was Sinful to Read Novels(from Simple Poems on Simple Subjects: 1805)To love these books, and harmless tea,Has always been my foible,Yet will I ne’er forgetful be… Read More
2016-08-12 15:00
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZNot only wars and other disasters that come over u… Read More
2016-08-10 15:00
Multi-talented and restless as he was, August Strindberg (1849-1912) never limited himself to only one trade. In his life he was active as painter, photographer, natural scientist, and sinol… Read More
2016-08-09 13:59
Sonnet VI.(from Fourteen Sonnets: 1789)Evening! as slow thy placid shades descend, Veiling with gentlest hush the landscape still, … Read More
2016-08-06 15:36
Click on the index card to enlarge it!2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZIt’s a… Read More
2016-08-01 15:00
Peace(from The Hand In The Dark: 1913)(July 28, 1887)The red-rose flush fades slowly in the west.The golden water, basking in the light,Pales to clear amber and to silver white.The velvet sh… Read More
2016-07-31 15:21
Soviet partisans on the road in Belarus, 1944 counter-offensivevia Wikimedia CommonsWithout doubt, World War II is one of the big recurring themes of modern literature and since I started bo… Read More
2016-07-29 16:06
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZWithout doubt the holocaust is the darkest chapter… Read More
2016-07-27 15:39
Soviet partisans on the road in Belarus, 1944 counter-offensivevia Wikimedia CommonsWithout doubt, World War II is one of the big recurring themes of modern literature and since I started bo… Read More
2016-07-25 15:00
Warm Summer Sun(eulogy to the author's daughter Olivia Susan Clemens adapted from the poem entitled Annette by Robert Richardsonand engraved on her headstone: 1896)Warm summer sun,Shine kind… Read More
2016-07-22 16:25
2016 review of a book written by an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZMaybe with the exception of those who consider pre… Read More
2016-07-20 15:23
July was the second month of My Mediterranean Reading Summer 2013 and my first as a participant of Rose City Reader’s European Reading Challenge 2013. For me it had in store the pleasu… Read More
2016-07-18 15:00
Lyckokatt(från Dikter: 1916)Jag har en lyckokatt i famnen,den spinner lyckotråd.Lyckokatt, lyckokatt,skaffa mig tre ting:skaffa mig en gyllne ring,som säger mi… Read More
2016-07-15 15:21
2016 review of a book written by an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZIn our times monarchies are all but in fashion. Much ra… Read More
2016-07-13 15:00
Nobody will deny that Anna Harriette Leonowens (1831-1915) was an impressive woman who led an extraordinary life for a woman in the Victorian Age. Nonetheless, nobody would still remember he… Read More
2016-07-11 15:00
Annette(from Willow and Wattle: 1893)And they say, Annette, that youBroke a foolish heart or two;Can, I wonder, this be true?Yet I will admit, Annette,That you were a sad coquette;Fain of pr… Read More
2016-07-08 15:55
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZThe years following the Great War of 1914-18 were a diff… Read More
2016-07-06 15:00
You haven’t? Not good because it means that you might have missed some interesting comments that your spam filter mistakingly put there. What makes me think so? Personal experience as… Read More
2016-07-04 15:00
Street Music (from Forest Buds, From the Woods of Maine: 1855)Methought a sweet sound from the street uprose, –And as I pause, and strive again to hear,‘St Patrick’s Day&rs&hell…Read More
2016-07-01 15:10
With thousands of refugees streaming to Europe along with (mostly illegal) immigrants and with terrorism being a futile though popular kind of “battle” preferably used by those… Read More
2016-07-01 15:10
As I already remarked two years ago, when I wrote a biography of Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) (»»» read her author’s portrait here), the important Span… Read More
2016-07-01 15:00
2016 review of a book written by an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZToday is the first day of July and I decided to begin t… Read More
2016-06-29 15:00
Erato, Muse of Lyrical Poetry (1789-1800) by Charles Meynier, Cleveland Museum of Art via Wikimedia CommonsAt one point or another – usually at the beginning of their career – ma… Read More
2016-06-27 15:00
The Pilgrim(from The Pilgrim's Progress. Second Part: 1678)Who would true valour seeLet him come hither;One here will Constant be,Come Wind, come Weather.There's no Discouragement,Shall make… Read More
2016-06-24 15:00
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZFor most people starting a family is the natural thing t… Read More
2016-06-22 15:00
Click on the image to go to Dolce Belezza's challenge post with a list of all entriesJune 2016 - January 2017This year the call to sign-up for the Japanese Literature Challenge X (2016/17) o… Read More
2016-06-20 15:00
There Is No Age(from Poems of Eva Gore-Booth: 1929)There is no age, this darkness and decayIs by a radiant spirit cast aside,Young with the ageless youth that yesterdayBent to the yoke of fl… Read More
2016-06-17 15:00
2016 review of a book written by an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZAll my life, I felt bewildered at how disinterested and… Read More
2016-06-15 15:00
In 2013 the month of June had four Fridays to fill with reviews. The four books of my choice were three classics first published between 1929 and 1944 plus one contemporary novel from German… Read More
2016-06-13 15:00
The Sufi in the City(from The Sailing of the Long-Ships: 1902)I.When late I watched the arrows of the sleetAgainst the windows of the Tavern beat,I heard a Rose that murmured from her Pot:&l&hell…Read More
2016-06-10 15:00
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZWithout doubt books shape our idea of the world, notably… Read More
2016-06-08 17:11
With thousands of refugees streaming to Europe along with (mostly illegal) immigrants and with terrorism being a futile though popular kind of “battle” preferably used by those… Read More
2016-06-06 15:00
Faith(from Poems: 1859)Better trust all, and be deceived,And weep that trust, and that deceiving;Than doubt one heart, that, if believed,Had blessed one’s life with true believing.Oh… Read More
2016-06-03 16:08
2016 review of a book written by an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZWhen I decided to read and review The Monkey Gramm… Read More
2016-05-30 15:00
Der Ring(aus Gedichte: 1837)Ich saß auf einem BergeGar fern dem Heimatland,Tief unter mir Hügelreihen,Talgründe, Saatenland!In stillen Träumen zog ichDen Ring vom Finger… Read More
2016-05-27 15:00
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZThe monotony of daily routine tends to lull us into delu… Read More
2016-05-23 15:00
An Hymn to the Morning(from Poems on Various Subjects: 1773)Attend my lays, ye ever honour’d nine,Assist my labours, and my strains refine;In smoothest numbers pour the notes along,For… Read More
2016-05-20 15:00
2016 review of a book written by an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZSometimes dream and reality can be quite difficult… Read More
2016-05-18 15:00
The blogging month of May 2013 saw me publishing another five reviews of more or less important novels, three contemporary ones (one of them by a Nobel laureate) and the only two nineteenth… Read More
2016-05-16 15:00
Sighs for Solitude(from Spring Life: 1864)Oh, give to me deep solitudes,And I will give you princely halls;My soul prefers the horrent woods,And rock o'ver which a torrent brawls.I love to r… Read More
2016-05-13 15:00
2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZVienna around 1900 is often idealised as a hub… Read More
2016-05-11 15:00
As I already remarked two years ago, when I wrote a biography of Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) (»»» read her author’s portrait here), the important Span… Read More
2016-05-11 15:00
As I already remarked two years ago, when I wrote a biography of Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) (»»» read her author’s portrait here), the important Span… Read More
2016-05-09 15:00
Life’s Grandest Things(from The Cornflower and Other Poems: 1906)What is the greatest work of all?The work that comes every day;The work that waits us on ev’ry handIs work that… Read More
2016-05-06 19:10
2016 review of a book written by an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZFor westerners like me India is a country of marve… Read More
2016-05-02 15:00
May Day(from Irish Review: IV [May, 1914] 135)I wish I were to- day on the hill behind the wood-My eyes on the brown bog there and the Shannon river-Behind the wood at home, a quickened soli… Read More
2016-04-29 17:37
The night of 30 April is Walpurgis Night, the night of the witches. According to Germanic folklore it’s the night when witches and sorcerers meet on the Brocken, the highest peak of th… Read More
2016-04-29 15:00
2016 review of a book written by an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZIt’s a sad fact that for cent… Read More
2016-04-26 14:44
On the occasion of his death today 131 years ago:As regards literature, Northern Europe has been fertile ground ever since the old Norse sagas were written down, notably the Icelandic Edda… Read More
2016-04-26 14:44
On the occasion of his death today 131 years ago:As regards literature, Northern Europe has been fertile ground ever since the old Norse sagas were written down, notably the Icelandic Edda… Read More
2016-04-25 15:00
A Fancy(from Memorial Day and Other Verse: 1917)The world of dreams is all my own,Wherein I wander – free, alone; –And each weird, fervid fantasyIs dearer than earth’s joys… Read More
2016-04-22 15:03
2016 review of a book written by an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZToday the world of the traditional Jewish shtetl in Eas… Read More
2016-04-20 15:00
In April 2013 I reviewed four books that I chose according to the theme of the respective week. With the exception of the contemporary novel The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafó… Read More
2016-04-18 15:00
April Dawn(from Youth: 1915)Pale light hid in lightStirs the still day-spring;Wavers the dull sightWith a spirit's wing.Dreams, in frail rose mist,Lurking to waylay,Sublte-wise have kistWint… Read More
2016-04-16 13:20
2016 review of a book written by an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZNobel Prize laureate in Literature Sir Winston Churchil… Read More
2016-04-13 15:00
The Great War of 1914-18 had been raging in Europe and other parts of the world for over a year, when in December 1915 the little known French writer Romain Rolland was awarded the Nobel Pri… Read More
2016-04-11 15:00
Имя твоё (из Стихи к Блоку: 1916)Имя тв… Read More
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