Wordsworth was not unusual among Romantic poets for his enthusiastic support of the French Revolution, but he stands apart from his contemporaries for...
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Style in Lewis's prose is a sort of triumph of the will over the external world of people and things, 'that fat mass...
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'Goblin Market' was the title poem of Christina Rossetti's first collection, published in 1862, and while she disclaimed any allegorical purpose in it,...
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Mark and Seamus discuss the unstable mixture of these forces and the innovative use of rhyme in a poem where the politics is less about ideology or argument.
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Seamus and Mark discuss the poem's lively depiction of the anecdotal abundance of London life and the ways in which its innovative rhyming structure helps to...
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Shelley's angry, violent poem was written in direct response to the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819.
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Whitman wrote several poetic responses to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He came to detest his most famous, 'O Captain! My Captain!
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Yeats's great poem about the uprising of Irish republicans against British rule on 24 April 1916 marked a turning point in Ireland's history and in Yeats's...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning's deeply disturbing 1847 poem about a woman escaping slavery and killing her child was written to shock its intended white female...
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Colm Tóibín is not the first person to advance an interpretation of Thomas Mann as a virtuoso of life in the closet,...
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