Author: Jay Ruud
Rambling Around Ireland
On a stroll through Eyre Square (no relation to Jane) in the center of Galway, we came across a bronze statue of a seated figure dressed in simple, worn clothing and labeled “Pádraic Ó Connie,” a name we soon realized was revered in Galway and throughout the Republic of Ireland. Born Patrick Joseph Connor to… Continue reading Rambling Around Ireland
William Butler Yeats’ “Under Ben Bulben”
Ada Limón’s “The Raincoat”
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”
