EPISODE · Jan 16, 2021 · 26 MIN
Wishing You Were Here
from Celebrate Creativity · host George Bartley
Send us Fan MailNo, this has nothing to do with Pink Floyd. This episode deals with the genre of travel literature - a genre that we don’t often associate with Poe. George’s top 5 favorite works of travel literature areThe Travel of Marco Polo by Marco PoloThe Innocents Abroad by Mark TwainOn the Road by Jack KerouacEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertAmerican Notes by Charles DickensNote: A very nervous ghost of Charles Dickens makes a brief appearance to read from American Notes.The episode concludes with a great example of travel literature - a letter written about a traveler to Warm and Hot Springs (on the way to White Sulphur Spring.s.Sources include White Sulphur Papers, or Life at the Springs of Western Virginia published by Samuel Colman in 1839, Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Dwight R. Thomas and David K. Jackson, and Highways to Health and Pleasure: The Antebellum Turnpikes and Trade of the Mineral Springs in Greenbrier and Monroe Counties by Lana Martindale, American Notes by Charles Dickens, and Charles Dickens by Michael Slater.Support the showThank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.
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Send us Fan Mail No, this has nothing to do with Pink Floyd. This episode deals with the genre of travel literature - a genre that we don’t often associate with Poe. George’s top 5 favorite works of travel literature are The Travel of Marco Polo by Marco PoloThe Innocents Abroad by Mark TwainOn the Road by Jack KerouacEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertAmerican Notes by Charles DickensNote: A very nervous ghost of Charles Dickens makes a brief appearance to rea...
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