What exactly is Poe’s philosophy of composition as detailed in his eponymously titled essay? How do we see ideas about the “unity of effect” at work in poems like “The Raven” and in stories like “The Tell-Tale H […]

For those of you who read the Katherine Schultz essay, “The Moral Judgments of Henry David Thoreau,” how do you think Schultz’s characterizations of Thoreau compare to your actual experience of reading him in […]

The Norton’s introduction to Franklin states that to “a remarkable extent, the writings of Benjamin Franklin represent the metamorphosis of New England literary culture from ‘Puritan’ to ‘Yankee.'” How might this […]