A summary of a remarkable short poetry fragment by John Keats ‘This living hand, now warm and capable’ is an oddity amongst John Keats’s poetry – indeed, amongst Romantic poetry in general. Just eight lines long – or seven-and-a-half, even – it’s almost a fragment, written in blank verse, almost […]
Five books that provide an accessible short introduction to the study of English Literature, selected by Dr Oliver Tearle In a previous post, we offered our pick of ten great books about literature, some of the very best books we’ve read in the course of our research for this blog. […]
A brief overview and summary of Confessio Amantis, John Gower’s medieval poem The most famous English poem of the entire fourteenth century is Geoffrey Chaucer‘s The Canterbury Tales, a vast collection of stories borrowed from European medieval and classical sources. But there is another English poem from the fourteenth century, which […]