How I Got to Know Seamus Heaney[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My first contact with the poetry of Seamus Heaney goes back to the...Haberer, AdolpheEuropean English Messenger
Shakespeare is the single most-adapted writer in history, with translations, adaptations, and new versions of his work cropping up all of the time. His work also thematically pervades much of the world's writing, consciously or unconsciously, today. ...
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The bricks of the old wall while crumbling live Five hundred years of history passed them by While plants grew in the cracks below, above Apart from people, this is what I love That ancient structures stand and do not die The bricks of this old wall while crumbling live ...
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Aren’t sonnets a little bit, well, old-fashioned? No! If you write a sonnet, you are joining the ranks ofmany famous poets who followed Shakespeare: from Edna St. Vincent Millay to Wilfred Owen, Seamus Heaney to even T. S. Elliot, who tucked a sonnet in the midst of his Wasteland...
So, yes, to some extent this is a lament written by another old guy fighting off the longing for a lost past. As I move through the once familiar areas of today’s big town, pausing the way I did in the past, too often I see people who are now long gone. Too many friends. A...
The whole beautiful city of Bath itself has been labelled a UNESCO world heritage site. The city is famous for its hot springs, Roman Baths and amazing, and ancient architecture. The whole place is quintessentially English! The Roman baths are over 2000 years old and are fuelled by England’...
From the Old Irish period until the 13th century the language underwent a prolonged period of regularization and simplification. Although they had existed in the language since earliest times, dialects do not come into view to any degree until the 17thcentury. This is because the literary standard...