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"We translate more easily than we know our gratitude to God into our admiration of ourselves." Hugh Walpole’s 1922 novel The Cathedral is one of the best works of this, now sadly and unjustly neglected, author. Regular readers of the Grammaticus blog hopefully haven’t missed the December 2022 release of his short ghost story The …
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The poem presented in this post is titled ‘In April’. Written by the celebrated Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), it was first published in 1902, in the collection of poems The Book of Images (orig. Das Buch der Bilder). Rainer Maria Rilke Rilke was known and is still much appreciated for his way with …
Ovaj tekst je, uz manje izmene, dostupan i u engleskoj verziji. Present Simple i Present Continuous dva su sadašnja vremena u engleskom prilikom čije upotrebe učenici često prave gramatičke greške. Nije ni čudo, jer u južnoslovenskim jezicima njihove funkcije obavlja jedno te isto vreme – prezent. U ovom tekstu preći ćemo kroz osnovne razlike u …
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William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was one of the most important American poets of the 20th century: a modernist of the imagist kind, he was known for using simple and colloquial language to express his ideas—a feature many critics now consider typical of modern American poetry. This can be contrasted with the modernists such as T. …
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