I arrived at the museum on a cold but sunny day in February 2013, to start my journey up Poe’s Stairway. Entering his research room, I looked around and saw
Month: March 2016
My Walk Up Poe’s Stairs: Discovering His Eureka!
This article was originally written by Murray Ellison and published on the Edgar Allan Poe Museum of Richmond’s Website (www.poemuseum.org). Stairs in Poe’s Childhood Home On a cold, but sunny
Was Hemingway a Bullfighting Aficionado?
We are first introduced to the term “Aficionado” in Chapter 13 of Ernest Hemingway’s, The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway uses the term when Jake Barnes, Hemingway’s fictionalized version of himself, along with
Spanish Poets Inspired by Poe
Last week I attended a wonderful performance of dance and music, focusing on Spanish-speaking poets who were inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. The production was a cooperative venture between the
Drinking Wine With the Basques in The Sun Also Rises
The first part of the Sun Also Rises focused on how several illustrious American expatriates in France after World War I symbolized a Lost Generation of disillusioned young men and
Use the Right Butter and Other Slatherings from our Poetry Workshop
I am in the middle of my nine-week Poetry Workshop at Lifelong Learning Institute (LLIChesterfield.org), we are creating increasingly more wonderful individual and class artistic works. For example, using the
Masks in The Sun Also Rises
“God has given you one face, and you made yourself another.” William Shakespeare A Persona is an artificial mask or a personality that some people put on when they are
Lady Brett Ashley: Hemingway’s Solar Flare in the Sun Also Rises.
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway begins with two epigraphs. In the first, Gertrude Stein states that the characters in the book, a group of American expatriates living in
Why Did the Man Keep His Beautiful Lady Out of Sight?
The challenge of my poetry workshop this week was to write on a subject that was either fully or partially concealed. However, Lydia chose to write about a fashionable female
Hemingway’s Point of View in the Sun Also Rises
I have started leading a discussion on Ernest Hemingway’s first novel, The Sun Also Rises, at the Lifelong Learning Institute (LLIChesterfield.org). In the first class, I asked the participants