Sign Up for the American Lost Generation Tour

Sign up is open for the American Lost Generation tour.  Come read the introductory post and sign up to welcome an American lost generation author to your blog at the end of March.

No Responses

Coming Soon….The Lost Generation

The American literature votes are in. The next tour will be American literature from the Lost Generation of writers, from Hemingway and Gertrude Stein to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound. More details about these authors, and sign up, to come soon.

Closely tied for second were American Romanticism and American turn-of-the-century Naturalism, both of which we’ll have to do at another point.

Thanks for voting!

No Responses

America, the Beautiful

Photo by cayusa at Flickr

From Ancient Greece we’re traveling to America….but I’m not yet sure just where in time we’re going to stop! Here are four themed tours. Which would you most like to see featured on an upcoming Circuit?

Please note that we’ve had Americans on the lists in the past; we’ll try to give those authors a chance again at some point for future tours. For now, though, these are the authors/themes we’re going to decide from among.

Colonial and Revolutionary Thought: Defining A New Nation

  • Anne Bradford, Phyllis Wheatley, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, Washington Irving.

American Romanticism: A Unique American Style

  • James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, the Transcendentalists.

American Turn-of-the-Century Naturalism: Social Issues in Literature

  • Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Frank Norris

The Lost Generation: Experimentation in Style and Form

  • Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Waldo Pierce

I’d love your input, regardless of whether you will be able to participate in the tour.

SURVEY CLOSED

6 Responses

Ancient Greeks Tour in Retrospect

Our Ancient Greeks Tour has come to an end. Did you miss any of the stops? What will be your next Ancient Greek read?

See where the tour visited below.

Wednesday, January 26    Lifetime Reading Plan shares thoughts on “Who was Homer?”
Wednesday, January 26    Badgerish.Net writes about The Odyssey by Homer
Wednesday, January 26     Aurelia writes about Electra by Sophocles

Thursday, January 27        2606 Books and counting writes about Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Thursday, January 27        Shelf Love writes about The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Thursday, January 27        The Literary Rapport writes about the character Electra in Euripides and Sophocles

Friday, January 28    Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog writes about The Odyssey by Homer
Friday, January 28    fictional100 writes about Oedipus the King by Sophocles

Saturday, January 29    Pining for the West writes about Protagoras and Meno by Plato
Saturday, January 29    Sasha and the Silverfish writes about Grief Lessons by Euripides, edited by Anne Carson
Saturday, January 29     Rebecca Reads writes about Poetics by Aristotle

Sunday, January 30     pages turned writes about Plato’s Selected Myths

Monday, January 31    Breathing Space writes about Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Monday, January 31    First Impressions writes about The Orestia by Aeschylus
Monday, January 31    Moored at Sea writes about Hippocrates

Tuesday, February 1    Libellule writes about The Birds by Aristophanes

Wednesday, February 2    The Reading Life writes about The Bacchae by Eurpidies
Wednesday, February 2    Fat Books & Thin Women writes about The Frogs by Aristophanes

Thursday, February 3    Notes from the North writes about Medea by Euripides
Thursday, February 3    Read the Book writes about The Iliad by Homer

Friday, February 4    A Literary Odyssey writes about Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Friday, February 4    A Common Reader writes about The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Friday, February 4    Bibliophilopolis writes about Anabasis by Xenophon

No Responses

Ancient Greeks Tour in Progress

We are now a third of the way through our Ancient Greeks tour, and there is another week of posts coming. Have you been following it? Don’t worry if you haven’t yet. Start now. The tour schedule is a sticky post on the blog. See it here. Each day, visit the Classics Circuit page to see which bloggers are welcoming the Ancient Greeks to their blog.

Enjoy!

No Responses

Ancient Greeks Tour Schedule

The button for the Ancient Greeks Tour is a statue of Achilles’ last stand. I personally find Achilles as portrayed in The Iliad very fascinating, so I’m glad that folks on twitter seemed to like this picture best! This statue stands in Hyde Park in London and is dedicated by King George III to the Duke of Wellington for victorious battles. The picture was taken by flickr user swanksalot (Seth Anderson) and is used under creative Common License with attribution.

I’m really excited to read everyone’s posts about the classics Greek works, most of which I personally have not read yet. Below is the current schedule.

Do you want to join in too? We’d love to add you to the schedule! Send an email to rebecca [at] rebeccareid [dot] com with your blog name and url, the work you’d like to post about, and any date preferences.

Wednesday, January 26    Lifetime Reading Plan shares thoughts on “Who was Homer?”
Wednesday, January 26    Badgerish.Net writes about The Odyssey by Homer
Wednesday, January 26     Aurelia writes about Electra by Sophocles and/or Euripides

Thursday, January 27        2606 Books and counting writes about Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Thursday, January 27        Shelf Love writes about The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Thursday, January 27        The Literary Rapport writes about the character Electra in Euripides and Sophocles

Friday, January 28    Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog writes about The Odyssey by Homer
Friday, January 28    fictional100 writes about Oedipus the King by Sophocles

Saturday, January 29    Pining for the West writes about Protagoras and Meno by Plato
Saturday, January 29    Sasha and the Silverfish writes about a play (undecided) by Euripides
Saturday, January 29     Rebecca Reads writes about Poetics by Aristotle

Sunday, January 30     pages turned writes about Plato’s Selected Myths
Sunday, January 30    Breathing Space writes about Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Monday, January 31    First Impressions writes about The Orestia by Aeschylus
Monday, January 31    Moored at Sea writes about Hippocrates

Tuesday, February 1    A Striped Armchair writes about Grief Lessons: Four plays by Euripides trans by Anne Carson
Tuesday, February 1    Libellule writes about The Birds by Aristophanes

Wednesday, February 2    The Reading Life writes about The Bacchae by Eurpidies
Wednesday, February 2    Fat Books & Thin Women writes about The Frogs by Aristophanes

Thursday, February 3    Stiletto Storytime writes about The Histories of Herodotus’
Thursday, February 3    Notes from the North writes about Medea by Euripides
Thursday, February 3    Read the Book writes about The Iliad by Homer

Friday, February 4    A Literary Odyssey writes about Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Friday, February 4    A Common Reader writes about The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Friday, February 4    Bibliophilopolis writes about Anabasis by Xenophon

No Responses

Anthony Trollope Tour in Retrospect

The Anthony Trollope tour has come to an end. If you missed any of the stops along the way, see the links below for each blogger’s thoughts on the books they’ve read. Also be sure to sign up for the Ancient Greek Classics tour if you are interested!

Monday, December 6   things mean a lot discusses Framley Parsonage
Monday, December 6    Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog discusses Mr. Scarborough’s Family
Monday, December 6  2,606 Books and counting…… discusses The West Indies and the Spanish Main

Tuesday, December 7  First impressions discusses The Bertrams
Tuesday, December 7  Classics in Context discusses The Claverings
Tuesday, December 7 Bibliophiliac discusses The Prime Minister

Wednesday, December 8 Lifetime Reading Plan discusses Rachel Ray
Wednesday, December 8 A Few of My Favourite Books discusses Can You Forgive Her?

Thursday, December 9 Desperate Reader discusses Doctor Thorne

Friday, December 10 A Few More Pages discusses The Two Heroines of Plumplington
Friday, December 10 Pining for the West discusses The Belton Estate

Saturday, December 11  Becky’s Book Reviews discusses Lady Anna
Saturday, December 11   Musings discusses Barchester Towers

Sunday, December 12  Stiletto Storytime discusses “Christmas at Thompson Hall”
Sunday, December 12  Reading, Writing, Working, Playing discusses The Warden
Sunday, December 12  Tony’s Reading List discusses He Knew He Was Right

Monday, December 13 pages turned discusses The Way We Live Now
Monday, December 13  She Reads Novels discusses Barchester Towers

Tuesday, December 14  Reading Life discusses Cousin Henry

Wednesday, December 15 Mustard Seed Book Reviews discusses The Christmas Stories
Wednesday, December 15 Fleur Fisher in her world discusses Cousin Henry
Wednesday, December 15 Books and Chocolate discusses Barchester Towers

Thursday, December 16 Caribousmom discusses The Warden
Thursday, December 16  Shelf Love discusses He Knew He Was Right

Friday, December 17 Rebecca Reads discusses Phineas Finn
Friday, December 17     It’s All About Books discusses The Way We Live Now
Friday, December 17 nomadreader discusses The Warden

No Responses

Sign Up Open for Ancient Greeks Tour

Sign up is open for the Ancient Greeks Tour, to run the end of January.  Come to the blog to read the Introductory post for ideas of what to read and to get to the link for sign up.

Introduction to the Ancient Greek Classics

Sign up now!

No Responses