Dr Oliver Tearle selects some of the best Thomas Hardy poems Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is acclaimed worldwide as one of the best Victorian novelists, but his poetry is often eclipsed by his achievement in the realm of fiction. Still, of the hundreds of poems that comprise Hardy’s Collected Poems, there are […]
A summary of a classic Matthew Arnold sonnet by Dr Oliver Tearle Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a Victorian poet and critic whose views on everything from culture to education were hugely influential (Arnold’s day job was an inspector of schools, and he was the son of Thomas Arnold, influential headmaster […]
The life of D. H. Lawrence, told through five interesting pieces of biographical trivia 1. He wrote a story about Jesus Christ called ‘The Escaped Cock’. This story, also sometimes published under the title ‘The Man Who Died’, was summarised by Lawrence himself as follows: ‘I wrote a story of the […]