Author Archives: Ron Pavellas

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About Ron Pavellas

reader, writer, a sometimes poet

T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg “Howl”

The Waste Land is “a modernist literary masterpiece,” written by T.S Eliot, the winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, and “one of America’s greatest poets.” I have now finally read it, but don’t know if I will read … Continue reading

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From Orwell to Miller to Strindberg: A Journey Ending with Beethoven on a Wall

Someone told me the essays of George Orwell are among the best in this form of writing. So I bought a book containing his major essays, but hadn’t read them with my full attention until recently. The foreword in my … Continue reading

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