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November has brought shorter days and cooler weather, as well as one of my favourite weather conditions - fog! It's often there when I wake up in the morning, descending again in the evening hours. I know not everyone likes it, but it just looks so delightfully mysterious to me. I've always been fascinated by …
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, …
In many countries around the world, 2nd November is marked as the Day of the Dead. It is a day on which people remember their loved ones who have passed away; they might visit their graves or attend special religious services. On that theme, for this weekโs poetry post I have chosen a poem by …
Continue reading "“Haunted Houses” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
This weekโs poetry post continues our seasonal journey through autumn-themed poems. If youโre an English language learner, donโt miss the vocabulary exercise found at the bottom of the post, along with the links to some additional tools that will help you with this poem. โTo Autumnโ was written by John Keats, one the most important …
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