In December 1774, seventeen-year-old Carl August, Prince of Saxe Weimar, met the celebrated young author Johann Wolfgang Goethe in a Frankfurt hotel room. The meeting was cordial, indeed the two men got along together so splendidly that, less than a year later, Goethe accepted the prince’s invitation to move to Weimar, where he would spend the rest of his long and incredibly productive life. I ...

This article examines connections between the Protestant Reformation and American literature and argues that Protestantism’s best expression exists in contemporary iterations of self-reliance. The first part focuses on William Ellery Channing’s and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s literary criticism of John Milton, a poet who represents the Protestant ideals these writers combine with American principles ...

Many of us will be familiar with the parable of the blind men and the elephant, beautifully retold by the 19th century American poet John Godfrey Saxe. In this tale, each man in turn describes the small part of the elephant they are touching (the flank, the tusk, the trunk, etc.), declaring with confidence that they know the true nature of the object (‘It’s a wall!’, ‘A spear!’, ‘A snake!’). Sa...

This paper aims to read Donne’s certain love poems in conjunction with Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. Eliot believes English poetry composed the 17th century resonates that 20th century. Therefore, this article explores similarities and differences between metaphysical modernist poetry. discussion is predicated upon notion wholeness Donne idea fragmentation Eliot. The exploratio...

Poet (Prototype Object Extension for Tcl) extends the Tcl language with objects featuring dynamic, prototype-based inheritance, persistence, and one-way constraints between object attributes. Poet includes wrappers around the Tk and BWidget widgets that are automatically generated using introspection. This paper also describes Poetics (Poet Integrated Construction Set), a sub-project within Poe...