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Articles with keyword "Literature"

The Eye of a Lady by Anonymous, ca. 1800

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The Mysterious Miss Austen

By Meredith Hindley

Two hundred years ago, Pride and Prejudice was anonymously published.

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Editor's Note

By David Skinner

From the vaulted arch to Celebrating Freedom.

Book cover for Stidentism

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Stridentism: Motors and Wings Included

By Steve Moyer

Mexican Cultural Movement in the Twenties Had Plenty of Varoom

The hero of Gilgamesh ruled the ancient city of Uruk circa 2750 BCE.

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Lessons from a Demigod

By Philip Freeman

Gilgamesh was a brutal tyrant who foolishly tried to defeat death.

Mount Vernon's Hotel Belvedere.

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Street Sense

By Jen Kalaidis

Walking tours of Baltimore's Mount Vernon reveal a neighborhood's literary roots and architectural gems.

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"Informed Patriotism"

By Bruce Cole

NEH celebrates five years of We the People

Library of America book cover of American Poetry, 17th and 18th centuries

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The Early American Salon

By David S. Shields

In the manuscript culture of the pre-print age, a lost world of poetry has been rediscovered.

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Of Stillness and Light

With Henry David Thoreau, winter walks can quickly turn into "frolic gambols."

Stein in France with her longtime friend Bernard Faÿ

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The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein

By Barbara Will

Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?

Plaque with face of Stefan Zeromski

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Żeromski the Magnificent!

By Steve Moyer

The novelist who captured Polish life even as it was changing