literature

Hi! Is there currently exisiting a literary community on PB that is not confined to discussion on literature but interested in creating literature? I am an aspiring writer (creative, essays, academic), and want to know if there is a body of people interested in sharing writing tips, personal...

Friends, I am glad to let you know the Loeb Classical Library is now online at RBO. It provides translations of classic Greek and Roman authors from antiquity with the original Greek or Latin on facing pages with the English. Some works are only found in this series. The Loeb Classical...

I am currently re-reading The Scarlet Letter as I prepare to teach an American literature course next year in a homeschool co-op. One thing that is striking me this time around is the way Hawthorne portrays Puritans and Puritanism (the last/first time I read TSL, I was 13, so I naturally missed...

Hello all, I was pondering the other day, whether there be much benefit in re-reading biography. I have never read a particular biography more than once myself. Have any of you? Do you have an argument for the benefit of re-reading good biography? I have known of the general benefit of...

Although we have a strong tradition when it comes to sermons and hyms it seems like very few Calvinists throughout history have written fiction/poetry and the only one I can think of is John Bunyan. Also Marianne Robinson doesn’t count since she is a Barthian universalist.

Greetings All! Wondering if some of our historians could provide some of the context here. I was going through Dickens' A Christmas Carol with my students in class, when I came across the following (the context is Scrooge in conversation with the Ghost of Christmas Present, after seeing...