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. […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle Virginia Woolf’s third novel, Jacob’s Room (1922), is not her most famous book, but it is one of her defining novels and marked a watershed in her development as a writer, so a little analysis of its significance, and a summary of the story behind its composition, may […]
A summary and analysis of ‘The Collar’, a classic George Herbert poem, by Dr Oliver Tearle George Herbert (1593-1633) is regarded as one of the greatest devotional poets in all of English literature, and ‘The Collar’ is one of his best-loved poems. Here is the poem, with a short analysis […]
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 […]
A short introduction to the children’s classic, Charlotte’s Web, in the form of five interesting facts 1. Charlotte’s Web was a huge bestseller. It was the last children’s book to appear on the New York Times bestseller list until the Harry Potter series nearly half a century later. It has gone on to sell […]