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'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...
‘What has it got in its pocketses?’
Vafþrúðnismál (The Poem of Vafthrudnir)
Odin, in disguise, challenges the giant Vafthrudnir to a wisdom contest, in which the winner kills the loser. They take turns asking each other questions, and it is assumed that the asker will al...
‘A wilderness of waggons’
From Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister (1876)
The Story So Far…
Ferdinand Lopez is financially ruined. That morning, he tells his wife he is taking the train from London to Birmingham.
Now Read On…
After a while he went b...
The Dog Days
Sophie Ella (Creative Commons)
This week we focus on one memorable invocation of this phrase. In his 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens described the miserly, mean-spirited Ebenezer Scrooge as ‘carr[ying] his own low temperatu...
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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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