Wordsworth’s American Champion
Nearly two centuries ago, Penn professor Henry Hope Reed put William Wordsworth on America’s cultural map. More or less forgotten today (make that more), Reed was an impressive scholar whose enthusiasm for Wordsworth and English Romanticism helped shape the nation’s literary values.
Why Chaucer and Why Now?
David Wallace on Chaucer, his world, and ours.
The Classics, Fully Loaded and Ready to be Heard
One-stop shopping for great literature at enjoytheclassics.com
Take Note
The mid-1960s English classroom, revisited.
Putting the Lit in Chick Lit
Chick Lit, Quaker style.
First Fictions
First time novelists Robert Cort, Caren Lissner, and Lisa Tucker talk about themselves and their writing, accompanied by excerpts from their work.
Author Earns City Honor
Lorene Cary honored with The Philadelphia Award for her work “to advance the best and largest interest of the community.”
Land Grants and Literature
Dave Koch C’98
Uncommon Reader
Larry Dark C’81
In the Valley of the Shadow of Death 101
Two instructors and 14 students took a literary tour of duty through our bloody century.
Penn & Ink
A reading series at Kelly Writers House is bringing in a stream of alumni poets, fiction writers, journalists, screenwriters, editors, and literary agents back to campus—many for their first time since graduation.