John bachelor tennyson biography of abraham
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In honor of this quarter-century milestone, I’ve assembled a little reading list, which includes texts referenced in the film, as well as a few other books that have a similar theme.
(And for a great Dead Poets Society live-blog, check out Jeff’s post here).
“Ulysses” (1833) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson- Remember that scene where the guys are in the cave for the first time, reviving the “Dead Poets Society?” And Neil reads those lines from “Ulysses?” *swoooooons* This is my favorite poem, guys, because it’s so lyrical, and despairing yet hopeful, and just so perfect. So get thee to a library or bookstore and grab a copy of Tennyson’s poems, because if you like “Ulysses,” you’ll like his other dramatic monologues, and much of the rest of his poetry.
Want MOAR Tennyson? Well, you’re in luck, cause this biography by John Batchelor (Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find) just came out late last year and I read it and no
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Books: Decluttering, a masterful Lincoln biography, and history-making moms
Do you have tsundoku? That’s what they call book hoarding in Japan. I’m Carolyn Kellogg, book editor, and I’ll admit I’m a book collector (but I hope not hoarder, or at least, not quite). Welcome to this week’s books newsletter.
THE BIG STORY
Japan, perhaps not coincidentally, is where Marie Kondo launched her world-changing decluttering movement with “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” Writer Mark Haskell Smith follows her lessons — and some from the many books that have cropped up to surf the Kondo wave — and declutters his own home. One of the big questions, he explains in this essay, was what to do with all of his books.
Mark Haskell Smith after getting rid of hundreds of books.
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
A MASTERFUL LINCOLN BIOGRAPHY
In “Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856,” the second volume of his massive political life of Lincoln, the Democratic operative and writer Sidney Blumenthal sketches Abraham Lincoln in the wilderness — after his single term in the House, before his landmark Senate campaign against Stephan A. Douglas — that challenges the established notion that for more than half a decade the futur