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Miles Smith IV

@IVMiles

Historian of the South and the Atlantic World; college prof; lover of sports-ball; North Carolinian always, Michigander by choice; wife-guy; rt≠endorsement.

Hillsdale, MI Katılım Mayıs 2012
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John Barach
John Barach@John_Barach·
James Fenimore Cooper. Leatherstocking Tales had huge cultural influence. American themes: wilderness, settlers, indigenous people. Natty Bumpo ("Hawkeye") is first great American icon, distinctly American, not European, seen at various stages of his life & American history.
Plough Quarterly@Plough

Who Is America’s Homer? If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked for contributions from ‍@fxxfy, @DanaGioiaPoet, @zenahitz, Emily Wilson, @ae_stallings, @_Zeets, @JcScharl, @amjuster, @RossBarkan, Christian Wiman. plough.com/articles/who-i…

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Phil Klay
Phil Klay@PhilKlay·
Melville and Whitman
Plough Quarterly@Plough

Who Is America’s Homer? If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked for contributions from ‍@fxxfy, @DanaGioiaPoet, @zenahitz, Emily Wilson, @ae_stallings, @_Zeets, @JcScharl, @amjuster, @RossBarkan, Christian Wiman. plough.com/articles/who-i…

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The Atlantic
The Atlantic@TheAtlantic·
In 1831, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a short story that challenged America’s founding myths, John Swansburg writes. Then it disappeared: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…
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Philip Bunn
Philip Bunn@PhilipDBunn·
It’s Melville and it isn’t close
Plough Quarterly@Plough

Who Is America’s Homer? If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked for contributions from ‍@fxxfy, @DanaGioiaPoet, @zenahitz, Emily Wilson, @ae_stallings, @_Zeets, @JcScharl, @amjuster, @RossBarkan, Christian Wiman. plough.com/articles/who-i…

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Matthew H. Young
Matthew H. Young@matthenryyoung·
@IVMiles The Oval Office decor under Kennedy or Bush Sr. vs. Trump is a great example of old money vs. new money aesthetics.
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John J. Miller
John J. Miller@heymiller·
Bob Seger
Plough Quarterly@Plough

Who Is America’s Homer? If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked for contributions from ‍@fxxfy, @DanaGioiaPoet, @zenahitz, Emily Wilson, @ae_stallings, @_Zeets, @JcScharl, @amjuster, @RossBarkan, Christian Wiman. plough.com/articles/who-i…

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Miles Smith IV@IVMiles·
The essential aesthetic modesty of the presidency was always one of its (very few) remaining charms. The Atlantic City-ification of the White House grounds—ballroom, UFC, etc—just reinforces how coarse and braggadocio American society in all corners has become.
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic@TheAtlantic·
When King George III’s papers were made public, they revealed a vivid sense of who this monarch was—Rick Atkinson wrote last year—and why he chose to wage a war against his own people across 3,000 miles of open ocean. theatln.tc/FItMPMWn
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Phil Klay
Phil Klay@PhilKlay·
Whitman is our Homer Melville our Aeschylus Emerson our Plato Grant our Thucydides And Poe is our Edgar Allan Poe, because nobody else has anything like him
Plough Quarterly@Plough

Who Is America’s Homer? If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked for contributions from ‍@fxxfy, @DanaGioiaPoet, @zenahitz, Emily Wilson, @ae_stallings, @_Zeets, @JcScharl, @amjuster, @RossBarkan, Christian Wiman. plough.com/articles/who-i…

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Capel Lofft
Capel Lofft@CapelLofft·
Delighted to learn that at the Congresss of Berlin, a young Arthur Balfour had a discussion with Bismarck about their shared love of the novels of Sir Walter Scott.
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James Matthew Wilson
James Matthew Wilson@JMWSPT·
I am thrilled that @ae_stallings answered this question with Laura Ingalls Wilder. While the whole series is a formative text for the American character, the eponymous third volume is one of the starkest and most haunting depictions of pioneer life imaginable and "The Long Winter" is one of the subtlest and yet most perfectly described depictions of human suffering I have ever seen.
Plough Quarterly@Plough

Who Is America’s Homer? If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked for contributions from ‍@fxxfy, @DanaGioiaPoet, @zenahitz, Emily Wilson, @ae_stallings, @_Zeets, @JcScharl, @amjuster, @RossBarkan, Christian Wiman. plough.com/articles/who-i…

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Caitlin Flanagan
Caitlin Flanagan@CaitlinPacific·
Faulkner. No question
Plough Quarterly@Plough

Who Is America’s Homer? If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked for contributions from ‍@fxxfy, @DanaGioiaPoet, @zenahitz, Emily Wilson, @ae_stallings, @_Zeets, @JcScharl, @amjuster, @RossBarkan, Christian Wiman. plough.com/articles/who-i…

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Bradley J. Birzer
Bradley J. Birzer@bradleybirzer·
Willa Cather.
Plough Quarterly@Plough

Who Is America’s Homer? If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked for contributions from ‍@fxxfy, @DanaGioiaPoet, @zenahitz, Emily Wilson, @ae_stallings, @_Zeets, @JcScharl, @amjuster, @RossBarkan, Christian Wiman. plough.com/articles/who-i…

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The New Criterion
The New Criterion@newcriterion·
Our critic’s pick: “On America: How to Understand the Legacy of 1776,” by Russell Kirk (Creed & Culture). @C_and_C_Books @JamesPanero #1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newcriterion.com/dispatch/the-c…
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JoeRobbie
JoeRobbie@JoeRobbie_·
Them: There’s absolutely no way Cape Verde will be able to stop the attack from Spain Cape Verde Goalie:
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