Northwest Schools of Literature: Commentary: Marilynne RobinsonRobinson writes, she says, with the length and the rhythm of the sentence in her head, even before the meaning or the exact words come. To read Robinson is to take in the long taught rhythms she learned in Latin classes, in Shakespeare, in the King James Bible, and from the American transcendentalists. She is a serious and brainy writer whose ideas keep shining on the reader's mind, set there by the rhythm and the syntax and the sound of what she says, long after her books are finished."