Tag Archives: Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce and Gerard Manley Hopkins: Writers Famous for Not Being Famous

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

You can argue with the politics of The Weekly Standard all you want, but the magazine’s Books, Arts & Society section is almost uniformly superb. Two recent examples are reviews of writers who failed to achieve fame in their lifetimes – … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Andrew Ferguson, bartleby.com, Books Arts & Society, Edward Short, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poetry Foundation, Richard Watson Dixon, The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Devil's Dictionary, The Weekly Standard, The Windhover | 6 Comments

Kind “Word”

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

Many thanks to Boston Globe word maven Jan Freeman, who devoted this week’s edition of “The Word” to answering my recent plea for enlightenment on the was/were usage dilemma. Jan does an excellent job of unraveling it. Ditto for her … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ambrose Bierce, Jan Freeman, New York Times, On Language, The Word | 2 Comments

Tag Archives: Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce and Gerard Manley Hopkins: Writers Famous for Not Being Famous

Kind “Word”

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