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Sally Minogue looks at The Canterbury Tales
On National Poetry Day, Sally Minogue salutes the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer, and his seminal work, ‘The Canterbury Tales’.
Mia Forbes looks at the poetry of Christina Rossetti
“Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.” Mia Forbes looks the poetry of Christina Rossetti.
Steven Carver looks at The Island of Dr. Moreau
‘Are we not Men?’ – Evolution and Degeneration on ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’
Stephen Carver looks at Candide
Running and Laughing: ‘Candide’, God, and the Meaning of Life
Stephen Carver looks at Vanity Fair
‘A great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling’: Life in ‘Vanity Fair’
Stephen Carver looks at Treasure Island
Gentlemen o’ Fortune and Boys Smart as Paint: Stevenson’s ‘Treasure Island’
Shelley and the Peterloo Massacre
On the 202nd anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, Sally Minogue looks at Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetic responses to it.
Stephen Carver looks at Moby Dick – Part Two
“From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale”
Stephen Carver looks at Moby Dick – Part One
‘One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world’: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)