Nikolaus Lenau was the nom de plume of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau, a poet who is now considered one the most important voices of Late-Romantic literature in German. A portrait of Lenau by Matevลพ Langus Born in Csatรกd in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Lenauheim in the Banat region of western Romania) in 1802, …
Conditional sentences in English
In this grammar post weโll be discussing different types of conditional sentences in English: how to structure them and which tenses to use. At the end, youโll find an online grammar quiz on this topic.
“November” by Alice Cary
Alice Cary was a 19th century American poet. Born in 1820, she grew up in rural Ohio, on a family farm run by her father William. Although living far from any schools and lacking formal education, Alice was an avid reader with a thirst for knowledge. She and her sister Phoebe started writing poetry in …
On long walks, birds and poems (featuring Emily Dickinson)
I have recently been invited by a fellow blogger, John Stamos, to write a guest post for his wonderful website called The Renaissance Garden Guy. In it, I shared about my love of walking and birding, and how those two activities helped to make me a more discerning reader. In the same post I have …
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