Henry Taylor: 38 books

Henry Taylor’s long life (1825–1931) gave him an unusual perspective on change in American society. During his lifetime, the West was largely settled. America fought wars with Mexico and Spain, was nearly torn apart by a civil conflict, and then joined allies across the sea in World War I. Inventions...

The poems in Crooked Run arise from the landscape, people, and history of a small patch of rural northern Virginia that was once Henry Taylor's home. Taylor moves back and forth over several centuries telling the stories of Loudoun County, part of which is watered by Crooked Run. The stream becomes...

The Middle Ages! They seem so far away; intellectually so preposterous, spiritually so strange. Bits of them may touch our sympathy, please our taste; their window-glass, their sculpture, certain of their stories, their romances,—as if those straitened ages really were the time of romance, which...

The romantic growth and imaginative shaping of chivalric love having been followed in the fortunes of its great exemplars, Tristan, Iseult, Lancelot, Guinevere, Parzival, a different illustration of mediaeval passion may be had by turning from these creations of literature to an actual woman, whose...

(Short story) A man meets three rabbits in a meadow, and tells them a story to lure them to salvation.

(Short story.) In a world where time travel is commonplace, a man tries to change his present by visiting the past--"and the grandfather paradox be damned."

(Myth) A continuation of the story of Sissra, explaining why and how he obtained his deadly bite.

(Myth) The third tale of the conflict between Sissra and Gawar.

(Short story.) A small boy's favorite toy is a little wooden hammer; as he grows up, his childish infatuation turns into an obsession.

(Short story) Two sophisticated cats try to entertain themselves one afternoon.

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The Middle Ages! They seem so far away; intellectually so preposterous, spiritually so strange. Bits of them may touch our sympathy, please our taste; their window-glass, their sculpture, certain of their stories, their romances,—as if those straitened ages really were the time of romance, which...

(Short story.) An encounter in the woods between a young boy playing "soldiers" and his older brother's authoritarian friend.

(Short story.) Bert and Liz live in a house they cannot leave. A rumpled paper bag on the coffee table is filled with slips of paper; when a slip is drawn, whatever is written on it soon appears in their little world. But words can have more than one meaning...