Annabel Lee
This famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe is here transcribed by yours truly in Centennial Gregg. Attachment: annabel-lee.pdf
The Flag
On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted a resolution stating that the official American Flag should have thirteen stripes, alternating between red and white, thirteen stars, to represent the states in the union, and a blue field to represent this new constellation. June 14 officially became National Flag Day in 1949. On Flag…
From The American Scholar
The following are excerpts from an address delivered on August 31, 1837 to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge by Ralph Waldo Emerson and transcribed by me it in Simplified Gregg. Phi Beta Kappa’s literary quarterly magazine, The American Scholar, was named after the speech. Attachment: from-the-american-scholar.pdf
Shakespeare’s Poetry
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, a Scottish judge and literary critic, wrote this assessment of Shakespeare’s poetry. I transcribed it for the blog in Centennial Gregg. Attachment: shakespeares-poetry.pdf
Home
Here is an excerpt from a speech by the managing editor for the Atlanta Constitution in the 1880s Henry W. Grady, transcribed in Anniversary Gregg by yours truly. Attachment: home.pdf
Delights of Reading
From the book The Use of Life by English banker, scientist, and politician Sir John Lubbock, here is an excerpt on reading, transcribed by me in Simplified Gregg for the blog. Attachment: delights-of-reading.pdf
French: une histoire de caoutchouc
Hello, a rather short story with some interesting forms, I think…
Work
The Crown of Wild Olive by English writer John Ruskin is a collection of essays dealing with various topics. It was published in 1866, and contains his last lectures at the University of Cambridge, dealing with subjects such as work, traffic, and war. Here is an excerpt from Lecture I: Work, transcribed by yours truly…
Glaucus and Arbaces in the Amphitheater
The Last Days of Pompeii, by English writer and politician Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, takes place in 1st century Rome. It tells the story of Glaucus, a young Greek in love with Ione, a beautiful and intelligent Greek set to marry him. Ione was left orphan in her childhood; the Egyptian sorcerer and high Isis priest…
Henry Robson Richardson
Henry Robson Richardson was one of America’s most famous architects. Born in Louisiana in 1838, he studied at Harvard, Tulane, as well as the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. One of his major works is Boston’s Trinity Church. Bishop Phillips Brooks was the rector of this Episcopal church and wrote an article in 1886 for…