Books That Changed Me: Elizabeth J. Church


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THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE VOL II


Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats. The communication of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti. Who could conflict a lush float in these musical waters? I’m unconditionally perplexed by beautiful, fluent language, and, oh, when it combines with clever tension – as in Robert Browning’s Andrea del Sarto: “Who essay – we don’t know how a others strive/To paint a small thing like that we smeared/Carelessly flitting with your robes afloat-/Yet do many less, so many less…”


AS we LAY DYING
William Faulkner


By now my bent toward what many understand as dour should be obvious. But it is Faulkner’s absolute depiction of Southern culture, a vernacular, and his rarely strange characters that dawdle and indoctrinate me as a writer. When we review Faulkner, we feel a heat, a rough humidity; we smell a grass, a earth. Faulkner sees things from each angle. He respects his readers adequate to plea us and make us work – we venerate that.


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