Tag Archives: Robert Louis Stevenson

Super Bowl: One Leg, Still Deadly

All but playing on one leg, Patrick Mahomes led the Chiefs to a second Super Bowl victory. Think of him as Long John Silver.

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A Stevenson Poem for My Mother

My remarks and a Stevenson poem at an occasion remembering my mother.

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Freud: Lit Leads to Self Mastery

A Freudian analysis of why we are drawn to literature and what it does for us.

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Dreaming of Travel during Covid

A very smart Covid poem circulating on social media at the moment references 11 poems, all about longing to travel.

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The Novels that Shaped John McCain

McCain’s favorite novels included “Great Gatsby,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” “Huckleberry Finn,” and works by Somerset Maugham. One can understand why.

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Tess, More Relevant Than Ever

Students find Hardy’s “Tess” to be only too relevant In the age of Trump, Weinstein, and Roy Moore.

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Trump’s Unseen Playmate Jim

Trump apparently has an imaginary friend Jim who no longer likes Paris. Robert Louis Stevenson has a great poem about an imaginary friend.

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Christmas During Life’s Storms

In “Christmas at Sea,” Robert Louis Stevenson’s speaker is both buoyed up and saddened by childhood Christmas memories.

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On Poe & the Paranoia of Anti-Vaxxers

Edgar Allen Poe gives us insight into vaccine truthers. Rather than dispelling shadows, scientific insights are pushing some Americans into repression.

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