Jane Austen’s novels pose a challenge for criticism. Something in Austen’s texture of her writing – its conversational ease, high spirits, bourgeois- domestic subject matter – confounds the heavy machinery of the academic critical apparatus. She is one of the first…
John Keats , Poet of Beauty “One of the great reasons that the English have produced the finest writers in the world is, that the English world has ill-treated then during their lives and foster’d then after their deaths. They…
Arundhati Roy aka Suzanna Arundhati Roy “…the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit…
Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by S.T. Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic, and philosopher. He is considered to be the Originator of the Romantic Period along with his friend William Wordsworth. Lyrical Ballads published in 1798 by Coleridge and…
Shakespeare was no stranger to the pandemic, he lived his entire life in the shadow of the pandemic. “Ring a ring o’roses A pocket full of posies Atishoo! Atishoo! We all fall down” One of the most famous children’s rhymes…
Edgar Allan Poe, Quoth The Raven, “Nevermore!” “All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream” – Edgar Allan Poe World’s greatest gothic American writer. Author of some of the strangest macabre tales in the English…