A reader's imp of the perverse

Peculiar the way seasons can become linked in the reader's mind with authors or types of literature.

For me it is the way 11th grade high school English's reading syllabus became linked with seasons.

September to November:

Poe

Hawthorne

Thoreau

Melville

December to February:

James

Sarah Orne Jewett

Jack London

March to May:

Wharton

Hemingway

Lovecraft

Of course Lovecraft was undreamed-of in a high school English curriculum circa 1982-1983. However, I found my first Lovecraft collection (The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of Horror, Scholastic Books 1975) at the high school library donation shelf. (And the earth tilted.)

I wonder if others have the same sensations and association?

My spouse said she has similar autumnal associations, particularly with the poet Longfellow.

Anyone else?

Jay

23 September 2029