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Some great literature is fairly easy to follow; some can leave you wondering "what was that supposed to mean?"
Today is the birthday of the French poet Paul Verlaine ( books by this author ), born in Metz, in the northeast of France, in 1844. He began writing as young as 14, when he sent his poem "La Mort" to Victor Hugo. He published his first volume of poetry when he was 22.

Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

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Lake Superior State University :: Banished Words List :: Banished Words List

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php Received the most nominations. LSSU was surprised at the number of nominations this year for "amazing" and surprised to find that it hadn't been included on the list in the past.

2 Literary Criticism

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/ The ipl2 Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. The collection is not inclusive of all the work on the web, nor does it plan to be. The sites are selected with some thought to their overall usefulness.
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Full List - ALL TIME 100 Novels - TIME

Get this book Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.”

Magazine: Language

The Exploratorium and Merritt Ruhlen have created an informative poster, Language Families of the World , available at the Exploratorium Store Online . http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/language/index.html

EDSITEment - The Best of the Humanities on the Web

On March 20th, PBS will look at the history of the American whaling industry from its 17th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War. http://edsitement.neh.gov/

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