Interesting Literature
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A page celebrating all that is most interesting about literature, the world of books, authors, and related matters. A mini-library of literary interestingness.
Interesting Literature
1d ago
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) was a Lebanese-American poet who is best-known for one book of poetry: The Prophet. This 1923 book is one of the bestselling books of all time: indeed, Gibran is usually named as one of the three biggest-selling poets of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. Born ... Read more ..read more
Interesting Literature
1w ago
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The American-born poet, playwright, and critic T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) is one of the most important and influential writers of the twentieth century. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Eliot was educated at Harvard before moving to Britain, where he settled, becoming a UK citizen in 1927. Eliot is best-known ... Read more ..read more
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘In the Waiting Room’ is one of the best-known poems by the American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79). Written in 1971 and published in the collection Geography III in 1976, the poem describes a visit to the dentist which the young Bishop made as a six-year-old girl. As she waits ... Read more ..read more
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1w ago
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Doctor Chevalier’s Lie’ is a short story by the American writer Kate Chopin (1850-1904), written in 1891 and published in Vogue magazine in 1893. This brief narrative concerns a doctor who is summoned one night to a brothel, where a young woman has killed herself by shooting herself in ... Read more ..read more
Interesting Literature
2w ago
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) French poetry is among the most romantic, the most innovative, and the most influential of all poetry. French poets – possibly influenced by the example of the American trailblazer, Walt Whitman – pioneered vers libre or ‘free verse’ in the late nineteenth century, while some of the most avant-garde ... Read more ..read more
Interesting Literature
2w ago
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Amanda Gorman’s poem ‘We Rise’ is an inspiring piece celebrating female empowerment and solidarity which calls upon women to support each other to bring about social change. The poem also cleverly summons the work of earlier poets who had written on the same topic. Summary Gorman begins the poem ... Read more ..read more
Interesting Literature
3w ago
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Flowering of the Strange Orchid’ is a short story by H. G. Wells (1866-1946), first published in the Pall Mall Budget on 2 August 1894. In some ways a forerunner to later narratives like Little Shop of Horrors, the story is an unsettling tale about a parasitical species ... Read more ..read more
Interesting Literature
3w ago
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Hard Way is the quintessential Jack Reacher novel. When it was first published back in 2006, it was the tenth novel by Lee Child to feature the American ex-military policeman turned drifter and modern-day ‘knight errant’. Child’s publishing schedule had become as regular as Reacher’s inner clock (he ... Read more ..read more
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), or H. D. as she chose to publish, was labelled ‘the perfect imagist’ by various critics and reviewers. Born in the United States, H. D. made her literary name in London, where she was at the centre of the short-lived imagist movement during the First World ... Read more ..read more
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Got a Letter from Jimmy’ is a short story by the American writer Shirley Jackson (1916-65). The story, which runs to just a few pages, involves just two characters: an unnamed husband and wife. The husband has received a letter from an associate simply identified as Jimmy; the wife ... Read more ..read more