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Shakespeare’s Sonnets
‘Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme’: Sally Minogue looks at the appeal of Shakespeare’s Sonnets at a time of lockdown.
Plato’s ‘Republic’
Mia Forbes looks at The City in Plato’s ‘Republic’
The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
David Stuart Davies looks at the classic early short stories first published in ‘The Strand Magazine’.
William Wordsworth 250
‘Trailing clouds of glory do we come’: Sally Minogue salutes William Wordsworth on his 250th birthday.
A Study in Scarlet / The Sign of the Four
In the first of a four-part series, David Stuart Davies begins with the novel that introduced the world’s first consulting detective.
Sally Minogue look at The Waves
‘Now is life very solid, or very shifting?’ Sally Minogue considers Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Waves’.
Cedric Watts disagrees with W.B. Yeats
Fallible Yeats: Cedric Watts has a disagreement with the great Irish poet
The Rise of the Gothic Novel
‘It was a question of suspense versus horror’. Stephen Carver compares the works of the two giants English Gothic literature, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew ‘Monk’ Lewis.
Stefania Ciocia looks at Little Women
Striding with Confidence into the Future: Stefania Ciocia reviews Greta Gerwig’s Little Women