“You had time to contemplate its masonry/and recall that other jail, the temple/of muscle and flesh built by your trade/of bricklayer, now turning wan and...
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William Shakespeare - Poet, Playwright, Stratford: Shakespeare's family or friends, however, were not content with a simple gravestone, and,...
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UBC is trying to raise around $1.3 million for a book that we (technically) already have a copy of sitting in the depths of the IKB basement.
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“her body, between the buildings/behind her and the parked cars/in front, throwing a coal-black shadow/on the ground the color/of tarnished silver…”.
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Literary criticism - Neoclassicism, Decline: The Renaissance in general could be regarded as a neoclassical period, in that ancient works were considered...
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As we walk the beach. Dad asks me what. it feels like. at its worst. eggshells, ice, or coals? I scatter the sandpipers who. run from me.
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THUS wears the month along, in checker'd moods,' went John Clare's description of November, 'Sunshine and shadows, tempests loud, and calms/One hour dies...
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William Shakespeare - Poetry, Plays, Sonnets: During his own lifetime and shortly afterward, Shakespeare enjoyed fame and considerable critical attention.
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William Shakespeare - Sources, Plays, Poems: With a few exceptions, Shakespeare did not invent the plots of his plays. Sometimes he used old stories (Hamlet...
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Globe Theatre - Rebuilding, Shakespeare, London: The Globe was pulled down in 1644, two years after the Puritans closed all theatres, to make way for...
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