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May.20.2012 - 8:41 am
Shelley's Ghost
I’m back from the Percy Bysse Shelley exhibit at the New York Public library, about as exhausted as I expected to be.  It was only a single room’s worth of material, titled “...
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May.11.2012 - 6:02 am
Visiting the Ghost of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ghosts, I guess, are like eclipses. You have to go where they are if you want to see them. That’s the case, at any rate, with the ghost of Percy Bysshe Shelley, which is appearing...
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Dec.28.2010 - 11:06 am
Notable events of 2010
  When the local newspaper asked me to comment about what future historians will likely regard as the most significant events of 2010, I thought it was an unusual approach to...
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May.22.2012 - 2:36 pm
In response to: Shelley's Ghost
Shelley's dilemma
Maybe not a view shared by everyone, but that's the dilemma presented in Shelley's final poem. For Christians and...
May.20.2012 - 11:14 am
In response to: Visiting the Ghost of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thanks, Dolores
Thanks, Dolores. It was my first time inside the New York Public Library or navigating the subway, so those were...
Dec.29.2010 - 1:32 pm
In response to: Notable events of 2010
Good point
Yes, the long term significance of the spill will depend on what comes of it, for better or worse.

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Poem: "He Catches Hell"
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About William

Historian and Poet William L. Ramsey received his Ph.D. from Tulane University in 1998 and has taught at Tulane, SUNY-Oswego, the University of Idaho, and Lander University. While in Idaho, he received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Service Award...
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