By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Dylan Thomas was a fascinating man and poet, and his poetry remains much-loved and widely read around the world. But which are his very best poems? In this post, we’ve endeavoured to choose Dylan Thomas’s seven finest poems which we think everyone should read. […]
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Top Writing Resources to Enhance Your Writing Creativity
By Kate Funk When writing creative content, writers need to have inspiration. What makes creative writing different from other forms of writing is that it requires a certain level of creativity and dexterity. From newbie to highly proficient writers, many would use various creative writing tools to come up with […]
10 Weird Literary Phobias and Manias for Book-Lovers
Unusual words about literature every book-lover needs to know Previously we’ve considered some essential words book-lovers should know; one of the book-words we coined, bibliosmia, has even found its way into other corners of the internet, albeit in a small way. (See also this Amazon discussion about the word and the […]
Five Fascinating Facts about T. H. Huxley
The life of Victorian scientist Thomas Henry Huxley, told in five great pieces of trivia 1. He was known as ‘Darwin’s bulldog’ for good reason. The most famous moment of Huxley’s career was a debate about evolution that took place at the University of Oxford in 1860. Although others took […]
Five Books That Are Great Introductions to Studying English Literature
Five books that provide an accessible short introduction to the study of English Literature, selected by Dr Oliver Tearle In a previous post, we offered our pick of ten great books about literature, some of the very best books we’ve read in the course of our research for this blog. […]