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Betjeman firmly lays the blame for the damage done to the speaker at the feet of the Victorian era itself, reminding us that this was the culture that condemned Oscar Wilde ('she ...

Baudelaire creates the inverse effect in his 'prose poems', by elevating, with occasional flurries of poeticism, mostly un-metrical language - language which does not invite in the re...

The technical sophistication of John Betjeman's poetry is rarely analysed. This is perhaps because Betjeman is not intrinsically associated with any major twentieth century literary m...

What Makes Satan Such An Interesting Character in Paradise Lost? Milton's Satan in Paradise Lost is one of the most controversial and critically discussed characters ever develope...

"Poets(, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors and musicians,) are , in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations of, their age": P.B.S 1820.Compare and c...

4. `[E]very hundred years or so , it is desirable that some critic shall appear to review the past or our literature , and set the poets and the poems in a new order. This task is no...

A simple but problematic definition to reading is the following "Reading is the ability to draw meaning from the printed page and interpret this information appropriately". T...

To be morally ambiguous is to either maintain unclear morals, or to shift moral code to suit changing needs, and this is undeniably a foundation of espionage fiction in the Post-war a...

What To Do If Your Child Has Dyslexia First of all, don`t panic. There is help at hand. Research into dyslexia (from the Greek for `bad` and `word`) has moved forward rapidly in th...

'Another, An Other Mode of Thinking' : The Implications of Literature in J.M Coetzee's Disgrace. 'Literary activity always bears a more or less significant relation to politics' ...