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Top Ten Posts From 2024 on The Hazelnut

The Ideal Gentleman

Tennyson’s Beautiful Articulation of Grief: ‘Break, Break, Break’

Patriotism, Honor in Richard Lovelace’s ‘To Lucasta, Going to the Wars’

Emily Dickinson’s Inspirational Poem on Hope

The Therapeutic Power of Stories

Hope for American Education?

Strength for Difficult Times: Inspiration From Dickens’s ‘Little Dorrit’

Gerard Manley Hopkins's "The Golden Echo and the Leaden Echo"

A Soupy Saga

Frankenstein and the Responsibility of Fathers

How to Read Well

Nature Versus Industry in Wordsworth’s Poem "The World Is Too Much With Us"

True Friendship in Dante's Divine Comedy

Does Diversity Training Accomplish Anything?

5 Tools for Writers

Don't Skip the Boring Parts

Old-School Literary Criticism Restores the Wonder of Literature

Sir Gawain, the Green Knight, and the Conquest of Self

Building for the Future

The Importance of Learning About Local Culture and History

Cervantes, Tennyson, Medieval Poetry: Recent Articles in Epoch Times

Dreaming and Waking

Literary Theory Was Corrupted, But...

A Children’s Book We Can All Learn From

Does Drinking Dairy Make You Racist?

The Use of Doubles in Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’

Reading Journal for Classics Just Released!

Celebrating the Simple Life: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

Italian Literary History in a Single Image

On the Power of Quiet Lives

250 Subscribers Celebration!

The Bunker

Selfishness and Self-Knowledge in C.S. Lewis’s ‘Till We Have Faces’

Tolkien’s ‘The Return of the King’: A Tale to Reignite Hope

Why Don’t We Create Beautiful Art Anymore?

Why We Need Poetry: Seeing the World Anew

Who Was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

New Is Not Always Better

Freelance Writing Services

Are Public Schools in Decline? Survey of Teachers Says Yes.

"Fireflies"

Fly Fishing the Driftless Area

What Was Karl Marx Like?

Art Awakens the Soul in Brideshead Revisited

Walker Percy on How to Recover Education

Spiritual Transformation in Medieval Poem "Yvain"

Poetry and Grief

"The Tears of Things": Suffering for a Reason in Virgil's Aeneid

10 Great Historical Fiction Books for Young Readers

Finding Peace in Tragedy: John Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’

How Our Culture of Artificiality Is Destroying Objective Reality

Here's Why You Should Start a Read-Aloud Group

Wendell Berry: What We Lose When Small-Town America Collapses (And How to Recover It)

What is True Leisure?

Reclaiming Emotional Development in Education

"The Home Farm"

Friendship and Grief Beget Art

This Wick of Light

Tennyson, Male Friendship, and the Gay Appropriation of History

5 Classic Poems for Children

Returning to First Things

Self-Sacrifice Transcends Suffering in Euripides’s ‘Alcestis’

Dostoevsky and Despair

The Loss of the Sacred in American Culture

Why Literature is Crucial for a Good Education

Vampires in Fiction

Teaching With Stories

Dostoevsky Debunked Socialism 50 Years Before the Russian Revolution

"The Darkling Thrush"