By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was one of the major American playwrights of the twentieth century. Along with Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill, he may be regarded as one of the most important and influential writers for the US stage during the 1940s and 1950s. Miller’s […]
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‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’: Key Quotes Explained
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’ is one of the few short stories of the last half-century or so which can truly be called a modern myth. Indeed, Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), the story’s author, called her 1973 tale a ‘psychomyth’, inspired […]
10 Important and Interesting Facts about Robert Frost
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Robert Frost (1874-1963) is one of the most important, and popular, American poets of the twentieth century. Over a long career, he wrote poems about everything from the natural world to the founding of America, from his own childhood and youth to the landscape […]
A Summary and Analysis of Shirley Jackson’s ‘Charles’
‘Charles’ is a short story by the American writer Shirley Jackson (1916-65), first published in the women’s magazine Mademoiselle in 1948 and included in her 1949 collection, The Lottery and Other Stories. The story is about a young boy who, upon starting kindergarten, picks up bad habits which he attributes to […]
10 of the Best Examples of Haiku Poems Everyone Should Read
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) A haiku is the most famous of all Japanese verse forms. In English versions, a haiku tends to consist of three unrhymed lines of (respectively) five, seven, and five syllables, adding up to a total of just seventeen syllables. However, you’ll notice that many […]