Mac's American Lit

Walt Whitman is one of my favorites. I love poetry, and free verse is my favorite. I completely disagree with Robert Frost, as I believe tha...

I believe that her Fanny Fern’s writings are the product of a disgruntled woman, and really, there’s no argument to that. Her own brother re...

Ralph Waldo Emerson seems to think that for a person to be truly knowledgeable, they have to look internally first. In his speech to that on...

Think of England. It’s a place that surely has it’s beauty, but it’s not very large. The types of landscape that one sees there is nothing c...

One of the most disturbing things that struck me when I was reading Frederick Douglass’s Narrative was the way that the slave w...

As I waited for the debate in the arena at the Sarah Palin rally (because it was free) and tried to read the Federalist Papers amidst a bunc...

Mary Rowlandson’s account of how she was captured by the Native Americans shows the horrific aspects of living in America durin...