Brian Doyle’s old blog is still on The American Scholar’s site. Doyle, who died in 2017, was a fine essayist.
The Complete Epiphanies, described as “a blog about the stories that nourish and sustain us, and the small miracles of everyday life,” includes wonders.
I was surprised to learn that the poet W.H. Auden had briefly been a major in the U.S. Army Air Forces. Auden was not an American citizen at the time, but he was commissioned to study the effects of Allied bombing on German civilians.
Like Doyle, I just couldn’t picture Auden in uniform. I had to search for a photograph, just to make sure, before I could go on with the day.
• Source: You can find the table of contents here:
https://theamericanscholar.org/brian-doyle/
The item on Auden is here:
https://theamericanscholar.org/major-auden/
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