Aspects of Literature
Monday 8 March 2021
Metrical feet in poetry
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A foot is a measurable, patterned unit of poetic rhythm. The concept derives from classical patterns in Greek and Roman poetry, and has be...
Thursday 21 January 2021
Mrs Dalloway, a novel by Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway, a short novel written in 1925 by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is an excellent treatment of the problem of loneliness and love,...
Tuesday 27 October 2020
The original Mad Hatter
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One of the best-known characters in Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” is the Mad Hatter, with whom Alice takes tea together with his c...
Friday 9 October 2020
The Adventure of the Empty House: a Sherlock Holmes story
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The Adventure of the Empty House was first published in the Strand Magazine in October 1903 and later collected in The Return of Sherlock ...
Friday 25 September 2020
The Well of Loneliness: a novel by Radclyffe Hall
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Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) was a British poet and novelist who is best remembered for her fifth novel “The Well of Loneliness”, published ...
Thursday 24 September 2020
Matthew Lewis: author of "The Monk"
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Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818) was a writer known to the literary world solely for one novel, The Monk, which appeared in 1796. This no...
Tuesday 15 September 2020
Alexander Pushkin
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Alexander Pushkin was, by common consent, Russia’s greatest poet. He was also the heroic ideal of the Romantic poet. He was born in 1799...
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