Poets and writers

In this 12th grade-level article, Mike Kubic discusses how America's "Lost Generation" came to be. Access guided reading activities and a PDF download here.

The relationship between the late, great romantic poet, William Wordsworth, and his sister Dorothy, was not the normal sibling bicker-fest. In fact even in their day there were rumours of an incestual love affair.

Charles Dickens writes with a quill at his desk in 1858. He wrote everything by hand, from 9am to 2pm every day. Writing inspiration.

Hemingway

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The Life of Jack London — Conclusion | The Art of Manliness

Roberta Kwok on Shakespeare’s World, a crowdsourcing project that aims to better understand everyday life and language in early-modern England.

The Use of Symbolism in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas makes extensive use of natural conventional and prvate symbols to convey complex psychological states to his readers. He draws symbols from different branches of sciences, philosohies, myths, legends, literature, history, occult knowledge, bible etc.

I thought today, as I’d mentioned Mary Shelley (Godwin) in my Halloween blog, that I would start the stories of the sisters of the Godwin household in this weekend’s tale of scandalous women from h…

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