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Smoke and Rivers (and a Squirrel!)
From Zitkala-Ša, American Indian Stories (1921)
Early in the cool mornings, just as the yellow rim of the sun rose above the hills, we were up and eating our breakfast. We awoke so early that we saw the sacred hour when a misty smoke hun...
Wild violets
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, 'Sonnet'
I had not thought of violets late,
The wild, shy kind that spring beneath your feet
In wistful April days, when lovers mate
And wander through the fields in raptures sweet.
The thought of violets...
'We were very merry'
Edna St. Vincent Millay, ‘Recuerdo’
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We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was bare and...
'Burnt insect!'
Richard Lovelace, ‘A Fly About a Glasse of Burnt Claret’
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Forbear this liquid fire, fly,
It is more fatal than the dry:
That singly, but embrac...
Some differences of opinion
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Astigmatism
To Ezra Pound
With much friendship and admiration and some differences of opinion
The Poet took his walking-sti...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford
Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool; core member and curator of LitHits
Dr Martha Swift is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, where she also completed her DPhil in English in 2024.
Oxford lecturer in medieval literature, interested in pasts and futures of reading, and stories of animal encounter.
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