Aspects of Literature

Friday, 25 September 2020

The Well of Loneliness: a novel by Radclyffe Hall

›
  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"

›
  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

›
  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...
Thursday, 10 September 2020

Northanger Abbey, a novel by Jane Austen

›
  The bulk of Jane Austen’s novels were revised for publication a considerable time after they were first written, and it is often impossibl...
Thursday, 20 August 2020

Jack and Jill: a nursery rhyme explained

›
  Jack and Jill went up the hill T o fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got ...
Monday, 17 August 2020

The writing method of Edgar Allan Poe

›
  Edgar Allan Poe had a huge influence on American and European literature as one of the pioneers of science fiction. Also, through a relati...
Monday, 27 April 2020

Humpty Dumpty: egg or cannon?

›
Everybody knows the “Humpty Dumpty” nursery rhyme, and some people will tell you that they know its origin, but are they right? H...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
John Welford
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.