15 neologisms and coinages to describe as yet unnamed experiences in the modern world Here at Interesting Literature Towers we love interesting word facts. On Twitter we recently held a competition to coin a new word for something that doesn’t really have an existing word to describe it. (We’ve tried […]
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November 7 in Literary History: Albert Camus is Born
The most significant events in the history of books on the 7th of November 1913: Albert Camus is born. He is best known for his role in the philosophical and literary movement known as Existentialism, which sees human life is ultimately without purpose (Camus’ famous analogy was the myth of […]
A Short Analysis of Yeats’s ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’
By Dr Oliver Tearle ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’ is one of W. B. Yeats‘s (1865-1939) most popular poems. It’s also one of his shortest – just eight lines in all.
November 6 in Literary History: Marian Evans Becomes George Eliot
The most significant events in the history of books on the 6th of November 1671: Poet Colley Cibber is born. He would become Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1730. He was also a leading actor-manager in the London theatre world. Brash and sometimes teetering on the edge of […]
November 5 in Literary History: Guy Fawkes Night
The most significant events in the history of books on the 5th of November ‘Remember, remember, the Fifth of November’, as the old rhyme has it – and November the 5th tends to be associated with one particular historical event. But it was also the day of several notable literary […]