Category Archives: literature

Aug
17
2010

Bob Dylan, the Beat Generation, and Allen Ginsberg’s America

Bob Dylan in America, a new book by the historian Sean Wilentz, will be published in September. The following excerpt is Chapter 2 of the book. Once I went to a movie At midnight, 1940, Mice And Men, the name of it, The Red Block Boxcars Rolling by (on the Screen) Yessir life finally gets tired [...]

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Dec
16
2009

Edgar Allan Poe – The Tell Tale Heart

An animation from 1953 of The Tell-Tale Heart. A short story by Edgar Allan Poe. (19 januari 1809 – 7 oktober 1849)

By erwin | Also posted in film/video | Tagged , , | Comments (0)
Dec
12
2009

Ma Bohème – Arthur Rimbaud

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) Ma Bohème – My Bohemian Life Je m’en allais, les poings dans mes poches crevées ; Mon paletot aussi devenait idéal ; J’allais sous le ciel, Muse ! et j’étais ton féal ; Oh ! là là ! que d’amours splendides j’ai rêvées !

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Nov
21
2009

If..

Another poem. “If..” by the writer of Jungle Book Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 december 1865 – 18 januari 1936) IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If [...]

By erwin | Also posted in poetry | Tagged , , | Comments (0)
Nov
20
2009

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Written for his dying father. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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