English Resources (page 51)

Helping students with their writing Writing assignments, essays, and reports is a challenge for students at every level. Differentiation requires that we break down the difficult ...

John Milton's Lycidas (1637) has been widely interpreted as both a pastoral elegy and, conflictingly, as a subversion of the genre as critic Seamus Perry has argued , and Milton seems...

Keats's 'The Eve of St Agnes' and Coleridge's 'Christabel' both depict poetic worlds of Gothic sensuality and ghostly ethereality, centring on the blurred distinction between dream an...

'First Love' is a poem by John Clare, generally regarded to have been influenced by Mary Joyce, the first woman he fell in love with. It is a poem that does not adhere to the esta...

March 2014 - The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings was published yesterday and American Universities came top. Oxford and Cambridge came in at numbers four and five res...

Outline and evaluate the relevance theoretic account of verbal irony, illustrating your answer with examples. What do you take to be the main advantages and disadvantages of this ...

Preface We need to remember... that a film version of a novel is an independent text and should not be judged...by how faithful it is to the `original`: what constitutes as an origin...

'Away from Paris. away from the white' - the use of ascending tricolon is used for dramatic effect, and by being within the first paragraph of the story it sets the tone. It also show...

The aspect of feminism is a focal point in Angela Carter's, 'The Bloody Chamber', with her feminist views being vehemently put forward across every story in the collection. Carter was...

The "dark side" of the human psyche can cover many aspects, and throughout Gothic literature it is expressed largely through sexual desires and the possibility of murder and ending an...