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The first Gothic fiction appeared with works like Horace Walpole’s  Castle of Otranto  (1765), Ann Radcliffe's  The Mysteries of Udolpho...

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It is the best known and most well-loved of all 154 sonnets. It is also one of the most direct in language and intent. The poet starts the...

I n the late 16 th century  it was fashionable for English gentleman authors to write sonnets , lyric poems composed of 14 lines. T...

" On First Looking into Chapman's Homer " is a  sonnet  written by John Keats when he was just 20 years old. Essentially, it i...

  Virginia Woolf was a well-known English writer in the 20th century.  She was best-known for her novels, but she was also a writer of essay...

Wilfred Owen immortalized mustard gas in his indictment against warfare, " Dulce et Decorum Est ." Written in 1917 while at Crai...

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The Beat movement was an American social and literary movement, originating in the 1950s, and centred in the bohemian artist communities of...

Once medieval ballads (= oral compositions passed on from generation to generation ) became popular, they began to borrow freely from  the ...