Year: 2025
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Precision
Ferrick Gray — I was reading Murry’s lecture and on two pages of his book (86 & 87), there were some interesting and profound statements which struck me as being very important to any writer of prose or poetry.
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“Ode to a Nightingale”
Kenneth Daniel Wisseman — A friend of John Keats once wrote of John’s inspiration for this beautiful poem, “In the spring of 1819 a nightingale had built her nest near my house. Keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in her song; and one morning he took his chair from the breakfast table to the…
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Mrs Dalloway
Ferrick Gray — Mrs Dalloway is often said to be Woolf’s masterpiece, and having read some of her other novels, I would have to agree that this is no overstatement.
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The Psychology of Style
Ferrick Gray — In this second lecture, The Psychology of Style Murry sums up his previous lecture, but his summary is phrased very differently, yet in itself, it is something quite extraordinary. I would say that his explanations are much better worded, supported, and his work as a whole is very passionate in what he…
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The Jungle Book
Ferrick Gray — I feel I have been missing something for many years. Finished this little book the other day, likely a couple of hours reading. I did not take a great deal of notice because to was engrossed in the stories. I cannot recall having read anything by Rudyard Kipling. Nothing was ever offered…
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The Rape of the Lock—Canto II
Ferrick Gray — No-one can dispute the fact that Pope was the master of the riming couplets. He wrote most of his work in what we may now call heroic couplets which are written in iambic pentameter. As anyone who has written in this form will attest, there are certain times when a variation must…
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“Annabel Lee”
Kenneth Daniel Wisseman — October 9, 1849 a poem was published in the New York Daily Tribune. It would be the last poem of a poet I consider the greatest American romance poet to ever live. Many of his poems were of ladies he flirted with. He was an admirer of lyrical poetry, not so…
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Lord Byron’s—“The Tear”
Ferrick Gray — Byron wrote some magnificent poems (Don Juan), some very beautiful and touching poems (She Walks in Beauty), yet somehow I feel his work is overrated. For those of whom are devoted followers, there is no need to get upset over my statement. I too enjoy some of Byron’s poems, especially his later…
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“The Sound of Autumn”—Part I
Ferrick Gray — The poem I have chosen is written by Kenneth Daniel Wisseman, and is included in his debut book—To Look Upon Eurydice. It is also written in one of my favorite forms, that of terza rima. Hopefully many will know of this form from Dante Alighieri’s La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy).
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The Egoist—An Individualist Review
Ferrick Gray — Something most have forgotten about, but more than likely have never heard of—one of the early modernist periodicals, The Egoist. I have printed a few of these publications to read. The main reason was for the input made by Pound and Eliot, two of the men of 1914 so they say.