Events, Classes, and Seminars

Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973) was maybe the greatest short story writer in English that you might not have read. In this Delve, we will read the two dozen stories she wrote describing life in London and throughout Britain during World War II. She describes a world coming apart at its most intimate level—the homes, the lives

Willa Cather (1873–1947) is one of the most beloved writers in the American canon and is one of those writers whose works are embraced both by a mass audience and

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett is one of the most loveable and pleasure-giving novels in the American canon: the story of a writer who leaves her home in Boston for what she thinks will be a solitude-filled summer-long “working” vacation at Dunnet Landing, a (fictional) “Down East” Maine fishing village.

In this seminar we will read Marx both for his ideas and and for the pleasures of his prose. We will observe his use of Greek myths and other legends, the inspiration he took from European fiction and poetry, his journalistic reports of life in his own day, his lively historical accounts, his vast range of allusions from literature, his critiques of the arts, and his refined expression of his sense of the tragedy and the hope in life.