A summary and analysis of Katherine Mansfield’s classic short story by Dr Oliver Tearle ‘The Garden Party’ (1920) is probably Katherine Mansfield‘s best-known and best-loved story. She never wrote a full-length novel, but – taking her cue from such innovators as Anton Chekhov – made the short story form her own. […]
The life of Alexander Pope, told through five interesting pieces of biographical trivia 1. He was known as ‘the Wasp of Twickenham’. Poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744) earned this nickname because of his stinging satirical attacks on the famous people of the age, especially other writers. Pope’s long mock-epic The Dunciad (1728-43) – […]
Thomas Hardy’s classic poem ‘Neutral Tones’ – analysed by Dr Oliver Tearle ‘Neutral Tones’ was written when Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was a young man (in 1867) but not published until 1898, when his first volume of poetry, Wessex Poems, appeared. Much of Hardy’s vast poetic output has not had much critical […]