An Edgar Allan Poe investigation

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Few readers know that Edgar had an older brother. Typically going by the name Henry, he was a poet, like his famous sibling, and a hard-drinking sailor. Orphaned and raised apart, the two reunited in adulthood and roomed together in Baltimore, where Henry staggered from alcoholism into an early death at the age of twenty-four, in 1831. Aside from a 1926 collection (“Poe’s Brother”) issued in a thousand copies, Henry’s slender body of work has never been reprinted, and he remains the most obscure corner of Poe studies.

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Herman Gorters gevoelsengagement

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Wat een rare kerel was die Gorter! Cricketer, voetballer, schaatser. En dan ook nog gedichten schrijven waar iedereen van verbazing van achterover viel. Wat hij schreef voelde bij de jongens van tachtig ( jongens waren het…) niet eens aan als dichten, verdorie dat kon toch niet, zo’n sportjongen met zo’n sportjongens bebop kop met haar die zulke dingen zomaar schreef.

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Dante: The Most Vivid Version

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The mystery of Dante’s Divine Comedy has little to do with the encoded games of hide-and-seek that Dan Brown plays with readers in his best-selling mystery thriller. It has to do instead with the poem’s staying power. How is it possible—after so many centuries of manhandling by commentators, translators, and imitators, after so much use and abuse, selling and soliciting—that the Comedy still has not finished saying what it has to say, giving what it has to give, or withholding what it has to withhold? What is the source of its boundless generosity?

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Jo Smit en EBF

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Yn 1956 joech Jo Smit de novelle Sûnder sûker yn it ljocht, in kostlik gekoanstekkerich ferhaal oer in nasjonalistyske beweging, dy’t der lang om let yn slagget om har separatistyske doelen wier te meitsjen. Yn it fierhinne as monolooch fertelde ferhaal, him ȏfspyljend yn in kroech, docht in net by namme neamd haadpersoan syn relaas oer de beweging oan iene Kaspersma. De ferteller sjocht werom op syn eigen rol yn dy beweging, mar referearret ek oan in persoan dy’t systematysk mei ‘hy’ oantsjut wurdt, in man dy’t binnen de beweging alle macht nei him ta lûke soe, him dêrby ûntjaand ta in earsten klas diktator.… Lês fierder