Are these the best examples of nonsense verse in English? Nonsense literature is one of the great subsets of English literature, and for many of us a piece of nonsense verse is our first entry into the world of poetry. In this post, we’ve selected ten of the greatest works […]
Previously, we’ve offered some of the best poems for mothers, but what about the mothers of mothers? Below, we’ve chosen six of the very best poems about grandmothers, poems for grandmothers, and poems that somehow salute the different generations of strong women in a family. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘The Grandmother’. […]
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle reviews a lesser-known Allan Quatermain novella Maiwa’s Revenge is not a major novel in the H. Rider Haggard canon. Indeed, it’s a ‘minor’ novel even in terms of size and scale, running to just over 120 pages in the […]