literary
The Man & the Log
When I first saw the log that was to become my next mission in the wood shop, it had been sitting in…
This poem still needs a name, but I don’t want to give it one
Her son begins the outline of a lamb and cautions us to keep it as a secret, his fist clenched round the…
Of Absent Presences: Shakespeare’s Revenant Sonnets and The Tower of London
This essay explores how a reading of Shakespeare’s sonnets set in the Tower of London ameliorates an understanding of Shakespeare’s writing and his world. Sarah Bartlett has an MA from East Carolina University, with a concentration in early modern British Literature. Her studies focused on the works of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton. …
Of “Coming to be and passing away”: Aristotelian Influence in Donne’s “Ayre and Angells”
This study examines Donne’s work from an Aristolelian, alchemcial lens, educating the reader on the science practiced in Europe in the early modern period. Sarah Bartlett has an MA from East Carolina University, with a concentration in early modern British Literature. She served as a research assistant for the Donne Variorum for three years, during which time she began a six year journey undertaking a study of Donne’s enigmatic and chimeric poem, Air and Angels. …