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The magic of childhood objects
R.L. Stevenson, ‘The Lantern-Bearers’
The essay begins by describing a small group of boys ‘who congregated every autumn about a certain easterly fisher-village [in Scotland], where they tasted in a high degree the glory of existence…’...
On Friday
Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale
As a mixed group of pilgrims make their way to Canterbury, they take turns telling entertaining stories. The Knight goes first, recounting the tale (based on Boccaccio’s Teseida) of two imprisoned men, Arcite and...
All in?
From Willa Cather, The Professor’s House (1925)
The story so far…
Gifted university student Tom Outland has a mysterious past. Here, it is finally revealed how he made his way from New Mexico to the American Midwest…
Now read on…...
'A route of evanescence’
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A Route of Evanescence,
With a revolving Wheel –
A Resonance of Emerald
A Rush of Cochineal –
And every Blossom on the Bush
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Ode on Melancholy
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No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist
Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine;
Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford
Oxford lecturer in medieval literature, interested in pasts and futures of reading, and stories of animal encounter.
Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool; core member and curator of LitHits
Oxford researcher of medieval literature, especially Old Norse literature. Interested in gender, disability, and translation studies.
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