At the center of Eudora Welty's first published story, “Death of a Traveling Salesman”, Bowman, the bachelor businessman, suddenly understands both his years of loneliness and the relationship between the older man and the girl...
Johnston, Carol Ann. Eudora Welty and the Poetry of W. B. Yeats Before and After The Golden Apples. Eudora Welty Review 3 (2011): 63-86., In an interview published in Comment Magazine in 1965, Eudora Welty said of W. B....
Eudora Welty’s love affair with Elizabeth Bowen begins to unfold in Welty’s 1951 letter to Bowen after her second visit to Bowen’s ancestral home in County Cork. Bowen’s letters match Welty’s joy in their intimacy. The phrase...
Published as: Johnston, Carol Ann. Hank Williams Sings Songs of Lonely Love. The Drunken Boat 13 (2010-2011). For more information on the published version, visit The Drunken Boat's Website.
Johnston, Carol Ann. Heavenly Perspectives, Mirrors of Eternity: Thomas Traherne's Yearning Subject. Criticism 43, no. 4 (2001): 377-405. Reprinted in Literature Criticism From 1400 to 1800. Vol. 99, edited by Dennis...
In the one hundred years since the first publication of Traherne's poetry, discoveries of new Traherne manuscripts have reached the status of scholarly folk legend: pulled from fires; bargain-hunted from bookstalls; sleuthed...
I love to look up at the wires at dusk; mourning doves rest there, breasts of chocolate mousse., For more information on the published version, visit Shenandoah's Website., and Johnston, Carol Ann. "Morning Doves at the Bottom...
Once, when you poked your garden hose into a basket of geraniums hanging from the eave, out twirled a shining gray body, a frosty, fanged mouth., Johnston, Carol Ann. Poems My Father Taught Me. Illya's Honey 7, no. 3 (2001):...