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Thomas Hardy was an English poet who lived and worked between two literary eras, connecting the legacy of British Romanticism with the early 20th century poetry. Best known as a novelist, thanks to classics such as Tess of the dโUrbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, he is also rightly considered one of the finest …
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This poem by Tennyson is a classic New Year's poem, filled with good wishes and hopeful pleas. Read the post to find out more about its structure and metre, and you can also do a short vocabulary exercise.
This poem is rather short, but powerfully evocative in its simplicity. 'A Glimpse' paints the scene of a bar on a cold winter night, crowded with noisy, crude men sitting around a wood burner.
Dear readers, subscribers, and followers of the Grammaticus blog, I have the pleasure of sharing with you a small gift for the upcoming holidays: an ebook containing the unabridged version of the short story The Snow written by one of my favourite authors, Hugh Walpole. Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) Set in the fictional town of Polchester …
