Poems & Sketches of E. B. White
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ISBN: 0060149000 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0060149000 Global Overview for this book
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Sadness and languor along the oak tables
Steady the minds of the sitters and readers;
Sleep and despair, and the stealth of hunters,
And (in the man at the end of the row) anger.
Books are the door of escape from the forest,
Books are the wilderness too; for the scholar;
Walled in the past, drowning in fables,
Out of the weather we sit, steady in languor.
Which are the ones that belong, properly?
Which are the hunters, which is the harried?
Break not the hush that surrounds this miracle--
Mind against mind, coupling in splendor--
Step on no twig, disturbing the forest.
Enter the aisles of despair. Sit down and be quiet.
Page 10
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Bibliographic information
Title Poems and sketches of E.B. White
Author Elwyn Brooks White
Contributor Elwyn Brooks White
Edition illustrated
Publisher Harper & Row, 1981
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Mar 13, 2008
ISBN 0060149000, 9780060149000
Length 217 pages
Subjects Poetry › American › General
Poetry / American / General
Poetry / General
About the author (1981)
Born in Mount Vernon, New York, E. B. White was educated at Cornell University and served as a private in World War I. After several years as a journalist, he joined the staff of the New Yorker, then in its infancy. For 11 years he wrote most of the "Talk of the Town" columns, and it was White and James Thurber who can be credited with setting the style and attitude of the magazine. In 1938 he retired to a saltwater farm in Maine, where he wrote essays regularly for Harper's Magazine under the title "One Man's Meat." Like Thoreau, White preferred the woods; he also resembled Thoreau in his impatience and indignation. White received several prizes: in 1960, the gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 1963, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award (he was honored along with Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson); and in 1978, a special Pulitzer Prize. His verse is original and witty but with serious undertones. His friend James Thurber described him as "a poet who loves to live half-hidden from the eye." Three of his books have become children's classics: Stuart Little (1945), about a mouse born into a human family, Charlotte's Web (1952), about a spider who befriends a lonely pig, and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). Among his best-known and most widely used books is The Elements of Style (1959), a guide to grammar and rhetoric based on a text written by one of his professors at Cornell, William Strunk, which White revised and expanded. White was married to Katherine Angell, the first fiction editor of the New Yorker.
Sadness and languor along the oak tables
Steady the minds of the sitters and readers;
Sleep and despair, and the stealth of hunters,
And (in the man at the end of the row) anger.
Books are the door of escape from the forest,
Books are the wilderness too; for the scholar;
Walled in the past, drowning in fables,
Out of the weather we sit, steady in languor.
Which are the ones that belong, properly?
Which are the hunters, which is the harried?
Break not the hush that surrounds this miracle--
Mind against mind, coupling in splendor--
Step on no twig, disturbing the forest.
Enter the aisles of despair. Sit down and be quiet.
Page 10
From Google Books:
Bibliographic information
Title Poems and sketches of E.B. White
Author Elwyn Brooks White
Contributor Elwyn Brooks White
Edition illustrated
Publisher Harper & Row, 1981
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Mar 13, 2008
ISBN 0060149000, 9780060149000
Length 217 pages
Subjects Poetry › American › General
Poetry / American / General
Poetry / General
About the author (1981)
Born in Mount Vernon, New York, E. B. White was educated at Cornell University and served as a private in World War I. After several years as a journalist, he joined the staff of the New Yorker, then in its infancy. For 11 years he wrote most of the "Talk of the Town" columns, and it was White and James Thurber who can be credited with setting the style and attitude of the magazine. In 1938 he retired to a saltwater farm in Maine, where he wrote essays regularly for Harper's Magazine under the title "One Man's Meat." Like Thoreau, White preferred the woods; he also resembled Thoreau in his impatience and indignation. White received several prizes: in 1960, the gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 1963, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award (he was honored along with Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson); and in 1978, a special Pulitzer Prize. His verse is original and witty but with serious undertones. His friend James Thurber described him as "a poet who loves to live half-hidden from the eye." Three of his books have become children's classics: Stuart Little (1945), about a mouse born into a human family, Charlotte's Web (1952), about a spider who befriends a lonely pig, and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). Among his best-known and most widely used books is The Elements of Style (1959), a guide to grammar and rhetoric based on a text written by one of his professors at Cornell, William Strunk, which White revised and expanded. White was married to Katherine Angell, the first fiction editor of the New Yorker.
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Released 9 yrs ago (8/14/2014 UTC) at UNM Campuses (See Release Notes For Details) in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA
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