Author: Jay Ruud
Richard Wilbur’s “The Pardon”
Mark Strand’s “The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter”
Mark Doty’s “Golden Retrievals”
Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” (parts V and VI)
P.G. Wodehouse’s “The Code of the Woosters”
Sir Pelham Grenville (P.G.) Wodehouse was one of the most prolific (and consistently funny) writers in British history. From his first “school story” novel The Pothunters (1902) to his posthumously published final completed novel Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen (1974), Wodehouse published a total of 71 novels and 24 collections of short stories—95 fiction books in all. That’s a staggering number in… Continue reading P.G. Wodehouse’s “The Code of the Woosters”
Stevie Smith’s “Not Waving but Drowning”
Robert Francis’s “Pitcher”
Andy Roberts’ “Oxblood”
Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway”
Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, Mrs. Dalloway, is one of the uncontested classics of modern literature, and stands at the beginning of a dozen years of significant creativity and brilliant experimentation in the novel form explored here and in Woolf’s subsequent novels To The Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), The Waves (1931) and The Years (1937). Each of these latter novels has its proponents, and no… Continue reading Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway”