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Bart Casey

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David McCullough

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Bart is a writer living in Vermont who delights in discovering forgotten stories from history. His first book, The Double Life of Laurence Oliphant (2015-6), is a biography of an eccentric British Victorian and was chosen by Kirkus for its Best Books of 2016.

In Wonder Seekers of Fountaingrove (2018) Bart and co-author Gaye LeBaron tell the remarkable history of the mystical/sexual/occult utopian community called the Brotherhood of the New Life (1865-1934).

And in 2019 Bart re-tells the Tudor love story of Anne Vavasour and Sir Henry Lee in both a short ebook biography and a historical novel called The Vavasour Macbeth.

Bart grew up in England, studied literature at Harvard and University of Vermont, and travels frequently in search of stories
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Bart Casey Just go for a walk, or try some completely different (yet stimulating) experience -- an Oscar nominated movie or a museum exhibition. That does it.
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Good time for wine

200 years ago, in May 1819, John Keats finally succeeded in his attempts to write great poetry with Ode to a Nightingale and Ode to a Grecian Urn, written within a few days of each other.

From the first of these, here is some of the greatest wine poetry in English:

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Read more of this blog post »
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Published on May 19, 2019 08:17 Tags: great-poetry, john-keats, may, wine, writing
David McCullough
“Once I discovered the endless fascination of doing the research and of doing the writing, I had found what I wanted to do in my life.”
David McCullough

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