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May.20.2012
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 “Shelley’s Ghost: The Afterlife of a Poet,” but, for me, well worth the lack of sleep, hassles with airport security, and...
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May.11.2012
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 now through June in an exhibit titled “Shelley’s Ghost” at the New York Public Library. And while I’m not a...
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Dec.28.2010
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 the usual year-end retrospectives. So I sent them a list of things I considered noteworthy along with my explanations...
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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...