Choosing the right poem for a funeral can be a difficult task. How can you find the best poem to strike the right note at the funeral of a loved one, a close friend or member of the family? Below, we introduce ten of the most popular poems to be […]
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Advanced World-Building: Jack Vance’s Tales of Dying Earth
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle enjoys Jack Vance’s inventive quartet of picaresque fantasy novels I’ll admit that Tales of Dying Earth, the fat bumper edition of Jack Vance’s novels set on an Earth whose sun is about to go out forever, sat on my […]
An Interesting Introduction to the Work of Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes (1930-98) is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential English poets of the second half of the twentieth century. Below, we introduce the work of Ted Hughes by focusing on some of his key influences and a number of the major recurring themes in Hughes’ […]