The best poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) selected by Dr Oliver Tearle Alfred, Lord Tennyson lived a long time, and wrote a great deal of poetry. The definitive edition of his Poems stretches to three large volumes. Nevertheless, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to choose ten of the best Tennyson […]
The best modernist novels, poems, and short stories by English-language authors ‘A literary movement’, the Irish novelist George Moore once observed, ‘consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.’ Few literary movements better exemplify Moore’s point than modernism. Modernism was a […]
The best Charles Dickens books, and why you should read them – selected by Dr Oliver Tearle When he died aged 58 in 1870, Charles Dickens left behind fifteen novels, five Christmas books, several volumes of travel writing, and dozens of journalistic pieces and short stories. But what are the […]