The canon of literature is like a lofty tower, composed by hands that seem superhuman (for “there were giants in the earth in those days”). Yet one poet surpassed storied Babel; for he did “reach unto heaven, and make a name.”
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The Renaissance was a pivotal historical period which did not exist, and lasted for one century that began in 1300 and ended in 1650, give or take fifty years in both directions. These, at least, are the impression one might take away from reading a randomly-chosen handful of modern historians.
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Few figures in our Author Bank have life stories as dramatic as Olaudah Equiano’s—an “interesting narrative” indeed …
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Tolstoy:An Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard One of the pivotal figures of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and radicalism, Tolstoy was (as we must surely expect by now) vocally
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St. BernardAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard The academy, the battlefield, the royal court, and the chapel of twelfth-century Europe all bore the mark of St. Bernard’s hand.
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There is no greater master of the ghoulish among American authors than the tragic figure of Edgar Allan Poe.
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The tall, lean shape of Sojourner Truth strode tirelessly across the North, carrying the law and the gospel of freedom in its mouth.
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Victorian novelist Frank Smedley wrote that “All’s fair in love and war”; though we cannot be sure, Renaissance diplomat Christine de Pizan might have thrown her complete works at his head if she had heard that.
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Chekhov is celebrated for his eponymous gun, but his writing is more like a knife, sharpened to razor-like simplicity.
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Our society has stereotypes of both atheists and religious people; Wiesel sounds more like a Charles Williams character: “Asked if he were a pessimist or an optimist, he replied that he was an optimist and hated it.”
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