culture. education. literary studies.
In the days leading up to Halloween, one of the highlights of the dark season of the year, Iโd like to share some adjectives that you can use when talking about the weird, the sad, and the gloomy. Twenty six words, to be precise, one for each letter of the English alphabet, along with some …
One of the recognisable marks of the Romantic movement was a special kind of appreciation for nature. I'll illustrate that using one of Coleridgeโs poems titled "To Nature."
This post has been written with ESL / EFL students in mind, intermediate level and above. The verb โto useโ is a key element in several widely used grammatical structures that students sometimes confuse or don't use properly. In this post weโll go through them, explain their meaning and, finally, practise a bit. USED The …
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Alfred Tennyson was a celebrated 19th century English poet whose life and work largely coincided with the reign of Queen Victoria. He was in many ways the embodiment of the Victorian literary tastes and widely recognised as Britainโs leading poet of the time, not the least through being honoured with the title of the Poet …
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