The Literary Scholar

Or, The Woman Who Handed Her Pain a Pen and Said, “Make It Beautiful” By ABS, the Literary Scholar, who believes Sylvia Plath didn’t just write confessions—she carved them in fire, turned her psyche into poetry, and taught the world that even a bell jar can echo. Sylvia Plath didn’t write poems. She detonated them. […]

Or, The Man Who Looked at a Blade of Grass and Saw the Whole Cosmos By ABS, the Literary Scholar, who believes Walt Whitman didn’t just write poetry—he unleashed it barefoot, bearded, and bursting with the soul of the universe crammed into a single blade of grass. If Emily Dickinson wrote poems like secret confessions

Or, The Woman Who Stayed Upstairs and Still Managed to Haunt All of Literature By ABS, the Literary Scholar, who believes Emily Dickinson turned isolation into revolution, made dashes a weapon, and whispered poems that still echo louder than most people’s careers. Emily Dickinson didn’t storm the literary stage. She tiptoed in, locked the door

Or, The Literary Minimalist Who Fished for Meaning with a Harpoon and a Hangover By ABS, the Literary Scholar, who believes Hemingway hunted adjectives for sport, boxed with punctuation, and distilled human pain into seven-word sentences with a side of whiskey.   If F. Scott Fitzgerald brought glitter to American prose, Ernest Hemingway walked in,

Or, The Playwright Who Took the Nation’s Repressed Emotions and Made Them Monologue By ABS, the Literary Scholar, who believes Arthur Miller handed the American Dream a couch, asked a few hard questions, and then wrote it a eulogy in five acts. Arthur Miller didn’t just write plays. He dragged American morality onstage by the

Or, The Man Who Looked Deep Into Nature and Found—Himself By ABS, the Literary Scholar, who believes Emerson walked into the woods, found a pinecone, and came back with a manifesto. There are thinkers. There are writers. And then there’s Ralph Waldo Emerson—the man who walked into a forest and came out with a personality

Or, the Man Who Turned Emotional Overthinking into a Literary Movement By ABS, The Literary Scholar, who believes that if your candle flickers, your raven croaks, and your heart thuds a little too loudly—Poe probably wrote it first. If American literature were a high school, Edgar Allan Poe would be the quiet kid in the

By ABS, The Literary Scholar, who believes a well-timed nap can launch literary legends (and maybe a ghost or two) Long before American literature found its tragic grandeur in Melville’s monologues or Fitzgerald’s fizz, it had Washington Irving—a man who wrote like he’d just discovered sarcasm and folklore at the same time. He was America’s