Five fun facts about George Meredith at Interesting Literature! Interesting Literature One of the things we like to do at Interesting Literature is find authors who aren’t as celebrated as they perhaps should be, and find some reasons why they should be better known, if not more widely read. A perfect […]
Who wrote the first modern poem? Learn more at Interesting Literature! Interesting Literature Who wrote the first modern English poem? When – and, indeed, where – was it written? There are numerous candidates, but one could do worse than propose the answer ‘T. E. Hulme, in 1908, on the back […]
Interesting Literature’s interesting discussion on an author who greatly influenced me when I was a very young writer: Edgar Allan Poe. Interesting Literature There is a story that, while serving as a young cadet, Edgar Allan Poe was expelled for reporting to a military march wearing nothing but a pair […]
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In this guest post, Oliver Tearle, editor of the Interesting Literature blog, explains how and why literary research can be made interesting to a wider audience. D. H. Lawrence was fond of climbing mulberry trees in the nude to stimulate his…
Art and Advertising? Read on for an interesting essay on famous writers who worked in advertising early in their writing careers. Interesting Literature Before he wrote Midnight’s Children – the 1981 novel which would win not only the Booker Prize for that year but the ‘Booker of Bookers’ award in 1993 […]
Interesting article on Ray Bradbury by Interesting Literature. Interesting Literature ‘I heard this typing. I went down in the basement of the UCLA library and by God there was a room with 12 typewriters in it that you could rent for 10 cents a half-hour. And there were eight or […]
For all you Shakespeare fans out there (and we are legion). Interesting Literature Everyone knows Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Richard III (or knows of them at least). Even Richard II, As You Like It, and Antony and Cleopatra can be said to be well-known William Shakespeare plays. But what about the others? He […]
Another fascinating post from Interesting Literature. If you’ve been enjoying these reblogs, then please consider following Interesting Literature so you don’t miss a single post! Interesting Literature The word ‘tweet’ – meaning to post a message or item of information on Twitter – has this month (June 2013) been added […]
A timely post to the blog Interesting Literature. In the Comments section, Linker adds this insight: “Wheatley wrote during a period called the “Cult of Sensibility” that was especially important to anti-slavery movements in England and America in the late eighteenth century. The idea behind sensibility was to create empathy […]
There’s a lot in this post about Lewis Carroll that I did not know. Give it a read! Interesting Literature Lewis Carroll (1832-98) is celebrated around the world as one of the great purveyors of ‘literary nonsense’: his books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) have entertained countless readers […]
