“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
James Fenimore Cooper
09.15.1789 - 09.14.1851Expelled Yale Student. Prankster, evidentally. Founder of the Bread and Cheese Club. Novelist and Architect of the American Adventure Story.
“An interesting fiction [...]however paradoxical the assertion may appear [...]addresses our love of truth -- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.”
-James Fenimore Cooper
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