The grand old man of Victorian letters was once a young romantic, whose grief-soaked early verse still dazzles and unsettles.

On the literary shrine tucked away in the grand old Anglican church in London that’s most famous for being the site of coronations and royal weddings ...

Crosley, the woman at the centre of the Lachie and Jules Neale marriage breakdown, posted a picture of herself with a scarf covering her face while on a boat. She curiously captioned the picture, also ...

The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes is an enthralling biography of Alfred Tennyson in his youth.

As Ayrshire prepares to celebrate Burns Night, McTear’s is offering the opportunity to bid on one of the most famous illustrations of the Bard’s epic poem Tam o’ Shanter. The First Drink, which ...

Kedarnath Temple is one of the Jyotirlinga that represents Shiva as the Lord of penance or tapasya. The temple remains closed in the monh of February due to heavy snowfall. During that time, the Lord ...

Among all her poems, Remembrance (1845) stands out as a direct ancestor of Wuthering Heights. The speaker mourns a lover lost ...

The rhythm of the opening lines, “Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward,” creates a relentless beat which is continued throughout the poem. This rhythm echoes the sound and pace of the ...

This pattern suggests the strong formation in which the cavalry charge and is consistent in the first five stanzas. The final two lines of the first three stanzas act as a refrain or a chorus. These ...

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A tourist came in from Orbitville, parked in the air, and said: The creatures of this star are made of metal and glass. Through the transparent parts you can see their guts.