#English Lit

[pomeraniandancer]

I thought the first novel in English was Moll Flanders?

The most entertaining part of old literature is the amount of books that are just (often not particularly positive) responses to other books

[intothedreamverse]

White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky

[eva-eyre]

i post for the girls who are poor, obscure, plain, and little

[lackadaisycal-art]

Wuthering Heights...

[enlitment]

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Parts of it are very cringe but parts of it - well, still cringe, but worth sharing I think

[florasstudyjournal]

research/essay writing 26.09 THU

researching for my english essay at the library today!! writing on the romantics/william blake. ultimately, i’m hapoy i went with blake and this art/literary movement. the discussion he makes surrounding religion in ‘the marriage of heaven and hell’ is reallt captivating and interesting. and the scholarship is nice to read as well!!

i’m just doing some quick research to see how strong my current arguments are represented, or if i need to alter them, or find more scholarship to either argue with or against

also going to the library was a great decision, i actually started writing the bloody thing.

[macrolit]

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee This is 1 of 12 vintage paperback classics that comprise our current giveaw@y.

[astereaus]

Garous Abdolmalekain, Lean Against This Late Hour

[icarus-archives]

"I’ve collaborated with one of my only Idols William Burroughs and I couldn’t feel cooler."

Cobain visiting Burroughs' home in October 1993. / Kurt Cobain, Journals

[silverystardustt]

my form of contraband is smuggling food and coffee into libraries. sorry book gods but a girl has to eat something besides words.

[belle-keys]

the age-old discussion as to whether or not ben barnes was poor casting for dorian gray is incredibly funny to me like yes we know that dorian is supposed to look like an innocent blond cherub instead of a dark luciferian daddy long leg prince of sin because literature but it all comes down nitpicking in the end because i’m just sure that oscar wilde the man himself would have been salivating over ben every waking minute of his damn life if he were here

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"November is one of my favourite months, with its faded afternoons of cemetery eeriness, and its churchy smell of damp musting leaves."

~ John Lewis-Stempel, Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to study English literature A-level in an all girls sixth form with a young teacher then just know that once (and this is a few years ago now) my teacher played the “If the men find out we can shapeshift they’re going to tell the Church!!” video and then asked us what about the video we could apply to studying The Handmaid’s Tale

[eva-eyre]

[lackadaisycal-art]

Some Nika Goltz inspired Midsummer Night's Dream

[crane-song]

Anne could not immediately fall into quotation again. The sweet scenes of autumn were for a while put by--unless some tender sonnet, fraught with the apt analogy of the declining year, with declining happiness, and the images of youth and hope, and spring, all gone together, blessed her memory.

Jane Austen, Persuasion (1817)