Click here to read Roger Tagholm's moving editorial about Robin Williams and Literature. Tagholm "looks back at how Robin Williams brought moments of poetry and literature to life for a generation, instilling them in the popular culture."
Several of the books mentioned in the article are available at the Community Library, they are listed below.
W. H. Auden wrote some of the greatest love poetry of the twentieth century. This book contains ten of his poems about love. They range in mood from the exhilaration of a new love affair, through love's anxieties and fears, to the sorrow that comes with the end of love.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry
A pilot is forced down in the Sahara where he meets a strange little prince from another planet.
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The publication of Leaves of Grass in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it - the unusual jacket and title page, the exuberant preface, the twelve free-flowing, untitled poems embracing every realm of experience - was new. The 1855 edition broke new ground in its relaxed style, which prefigured free verse; in its sexual candor; in its images of racial bonding and democratic togetherness; and in the intensity of its affirmation of the sanctity of the physical world.
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