In his last letter, Tyndale asked that he might have “a warmer cap, for I suffer…
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“Sweet Thames Run Softly, Till I End My Song”: Two Kinds Of Poetry; Two Kinds Of Use Of English?
It’s a famous, striking and beautiful line I think! It is also a charming illustration! Charming,…
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Debate Between A Retired Teacher Of English & An Enthusiastic Student On SALLY ROONEY
So large and so significant is English as a literature that you never really lose sight…
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“What Is Honour? A Word”
The affections lead us on says Wordsworth. So does language. This is what Falstaff is resisting…
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The Names Of Wildflowers: A Vocabulary To Treasure.
Savour the names! Jenkins is writing his response to receiving a copy of Sarah Raven’s “Wild…
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“By Boots I Am M.A”
In the 1920’s D. H. Lawrence wrote the following clever poem. It may not be one…
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The Third Realm
The Third realm sounds mysterious, perhaps mystical, but is simply like this. It is English class…
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Music That Murders Silence
You cannot escape it can you? That loud over-powering pulsating beat! We have gone to a…
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Expanding Science & The Declining Center.
As though the scientific edifice of the modern world were not, in its intellectual depth, complexity…
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Has Literature A Function In The State? It Has…….
Has literature a function in the state? …. It has. And the function is not the…
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