British & Irish
mobi, epub |eng | 1962-01-01 | Author:T. S. Eliot

Polyphiloprogenitive2 The sapient sutlers3 of the Lord Drift across the window-panes. In the beginning was the Word. In the beginning was the Word. Superfetation4 of τò eν, 5 And at ...
( Category: Love Poems April 22,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray

Austen also provides a few fathers who provide well for their daughters: The Rev. Mr. Morland: The father of Northanger Abbey’s heroine is a sensible father. His daughter, Catherine, has ...
( Category: European April 8,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Janet Todd [Todd, Janet]

Literally or figuratively? The earnestness of Mansfield Park is buttressed by a new sense of significance in its episodes, Austen's experimental use of symbolism less to structure the book than ...
( Category: European January 24,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-06 | Author:Bate, Jonathan [Bate, Jonathan]

In a poem called Three Movements’, published in 1932, W. B. Yeats identified the expanding horizons of the Shakespearean moment, the self-expression of the Romantic revolution, and the trauma of ...
( Category: European January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-02-21 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

TO ROME BY PISA AND SIENA There is nothing in Italy, more beautiful to me, than the coast-road between Genoa and Spezzia. On one side: sometimes far below, sometimes nearly ...
( Category: Essays November 4,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:James Shapiro [Shapiro, James]

11 THE KING’S EVIL The first reports of the assassination of King James reached London as dawn broke on Saturday, March 22. According to the Venetian ambassador, as word spread ...
( Category: European November 1,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert [Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert]

Dearest of all the signs that fleet From lips that lovingly repeat Again, again, their message sweet! In the context of the poem, these kisses come from a girl who ...
( Category: European October 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-16 | Author:Harold Bloom

Daniel In my far-off youth, when I was an intoxicated exegete of William Blake, the book of Daniel held enormous fascination for me. In old age I am wary of ...
( Category: European June 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-17 | Author:Max Beerbohm,Phillip Lopate

DIMINUENDO In the year of grace 1890, and in the beautiful autumn of that year, I was a freshman at Oxford. I remember how my tutor asked me what lectures ...
( Category: European June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Winston Graham [Graham, Winston]

A reluctance, therefore, to change from this method of narrative in Angell, Pearl and Little God is understandable, and it was only after an agony of indecision that I eventually ...
( Category: European May 27,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-09-01 | Author:Hilary Mantel

Now that Grandad was retired, he had more time for testing me on spellings. First every day he oversaw my dinner, indulging me—take that piece of the loaf, it is ...
( Category: European April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-29 | Author:John Mullan [Mullan, John]

In Austen, as in the eighteenth-century novels from which she learned, pre-marital sex happens because a young woman gets into the hands of a rakish man, not because two people ...
( Category: European March 21,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Charlie Brooker

PART SIX In which EastEnders is revealed to be a work of fiction, Nick Clegg worries about human beings with feet, and a teenager incurs the wrath of the internet ...
( Category: European March 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Charlie Brooker

PART SIX In which EastEnders is revealed to be a work of fiction, Nick Clegg worries about human beings with feet, and a teenager incurs the wrath of the internet ...
( Category: European February 11,2015 )