What I’m Reading
Pick from my shelf
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This is an exceedingly beautiful poem. This stanza, for example: “The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.”
- Shakespeare’s Sonnets. I’ve recently been getting into poetry and feel obligated to read through his sonnets. My favorite is Sonnet 73.
- Confessions. I’m rereading it more slowly to try to digest it more than I did the first time.
- Madame Bovary. I’m reading the Lydia Davis translation and really enjoying it.
- James. I just finished it. It is exceptionally well written, memorable, and thought-provoking.
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. This is an exceedingly beautiful poem. This stanza, for example: “The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.”
