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.
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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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