Shakespeare Resources
Why do William Shakespeare’s plays still touch us today? This Renaissance playwright, poet, and actor had a unique way with words and a timeless grasp of human nature. His works are considered to be...
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Literary Friendships in Images
It’s fascinating to see how different writers interacted with each other. Enjoy these great photos! Here below are T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Belloc, and G. K. Chesterton.
Virginia Woolf Resources
Virginia Woolf Resources Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a Modernist writer who used the stream-of-consciousness technique, as seen in her novel To the Lighthouse. Here are a selection of resources you may find helpful in...
Fable for Critics Poe to Lowell
A Fable for Critics [Poe to Lowell] by James Russell Lowell Famous writers mentioned in this section—click on the name to move to that part of the poem: Edgar Allan Poe: a writer famous...
Fable for Critics Whittier to Cooper
A Fable for Critics [Whittier to Cooper] by James Russell Lowell Famous writers mentioned in this section—click on the name to move to that part of the poem: John Greenleaf Whittier: learn more about...
Fable for Critics Emerson to Bryant
A Fable for Critics [Emerson to Bryant] by James Russell Lowell Famous writers mentioned in this section—click on the name to move to that part of the poem: Ralph Waldo Emerson (learn more about...
A Fable for Critics by James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell’s “A Fable for Critics” (1848) is a funny introduction to many of the nineteenth-century poets and writers. Since the entire poem is very long — it’s really a whole book —...
John Greenleaf Whitter 80th Birthday Poem by Holmes
TO JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY 1887 by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr FRIEND, whom thy fourscore winters leave more dear Than when life’s roseate summer on thy cheek Burned in the flush...
On the Death of Anne Brontë by Charlotte Brontë
On the Death of Anne Brontë by Charlotte Brontë There’s little joy in life for me, And little terror in the grave; I’ve lived the...
On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost by Andrew Marvell
Marvell on Milton Andrew Marvell composed this poem in honor of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and it became a poetic preface to the 1674 edition of the poem. On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost by...
T S Eliot Poetry
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was a great Modernist poet who converted to Christianity mid-way through his career. He was a contemporary of Joseph Conrad, George Bernard Shaw, and Virginia Woolf, to name just a...
Charlotte’s Introduction to Wuthering Heights
This introduction to Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Brontë explains why she, Emily, and Anne had initially published under a pseudonym, and touchingly relates the story of her sisters’ brief lives.
Robert Browning Poetry
Robert Browning Poetry Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet, known for his dramatic verse. Considered one of the foremost poets of the Victorian era, Browning was born the same year as Charles Dickens....
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poetry
Here are few selections from Sonnets from the Portuguese, a collection of 44 love sonnets by English Victorian poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She was well appreciated during her lifetime, and her work inspired other writers, including Emily...
Elegy for Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In poetry, an elegy is a reflective poem, usually a lament for the dead. In this elegy for American poet and author Nathaniel Hawthorne, his friend and college classmate, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow mourns his...
Hawthorne and His Mosses by Herman Melville
Hawthorne and His Mosses By Herman Melville From The Literary World, August 17 and 24, 1850 [with the original creative spelling] By a Virginian Spending July in Vermont A papered chamber in a fine...
Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses by Mark Twain
It is likely that the literary offenses of James Fenimore Cooper are no more dire than the offenses of at least half the authors represented in a modern bookstore, but Mark Twain certainly enjoyed humorously critiquing...
