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Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique abou

#old English #old Norse #language #words #British #English

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It appears that people now find comfort in the idea that the life of even the greatest of writers is no more satisfying than their own.

#Shakespeare #author #British #biography #film #history

With her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift joins in a tradition that goes back to the writers of ancient Greece.

#poet #poetry #music #Taylor swift #Sappho #Greek #women #pop culture

In “Work: A Story of Experience,” Alcott fictionalizes her own stints as a servant, a seamstress, a governess, and a lady’s companion—and as

#american #fiction #work #feminist #novel #louisa may alcott #women

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, BBC Future investigates a mysterious vanishing – a play that has been missi

#Shakespeare #British #drama #manuscript

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https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/the-green-knight/?fbclid=IwAR0_IfKlshYM_Hs6Inw2uMAwH6Gp2VsfreJ3gI6dymIogGltpMu4sDiZrto

We who watch the wilderness fearfully, we do not become knights.

#medieval #Gawain #Arthurian #poetry

https://dickens.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/dickens-code-solved.html?fbclid=IwAR0i9SVbHj7cgOWfaCl9npgzZ6gcMB-it7L6V_V5RntdUKmAS6QTZhvWQUc

The Dickens Code: Enduring mystery of Dickens shorthand letter solved with crowd-sourced research

#British #Victorian #dickens #writing

https://classicalwisdom.com/mythology/agamemnon-and-the-cursed-house-of-atreus/

#classic #greek #drama #tragedy #world

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-true-life-horror-that-inspired-moby-dick-17576/?fbclid=IwAR3beeqFM01RNu7b-gbZh148voHQrOwJ2f_zFK6vVhs9WmQjSzcr9xDOYRQ

The whaler Essex was indeed sunk by a whale—and that's only the beginning

#Moby dick #Melville #American #19th century #history

https://lithub.com/a-brief-history-of-metaphor-in-persian-poetry/?fbclid=IwAR20_xlNMaPZBpVktAjhCwJhJcoe3TCihnNi6Vkp9WFVZ97HvNyCrbBKAJw

A significant feature of Persian poetry that distinguishes it from most verse written in a European language is that almost all of it—from t

#Persian #Middle East #world #poetry #metaphor

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-victorian-woman-writer-who-refused-to-let-doctors-define-her-180978988/?fbclid=IwAR1yTah80zEQerxQxmA1yjWr4sotCZTTzFYxtoSuBYaYQfc_rfH-5xgz18E

Harriet Martineau took control of her medical care, defying the male-dominated establishment’s attempts to dismiss her as hysterical and fra

#Victorian #british #history #illness #martineau

https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2021/10/01/excerpt-origins-english-history-play-shakespeare-war/?fbclid=IwAR1G0zdxsqnY3e6fnbq2vIJpu2Vq7L1hMdHHT3YEZ6_7cvCYftjPM57fuz8

David Bevington explores the origins of the English history play as "a dramatic study of civil conflict in England" in this excerpt.

#Shakespeare #history #war #politics #drama

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rediscovered-medieval-manuscript-offers-new-twist-on-arthurian-legend-180978705/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR3ulqy-7N6WKrkydhB5E-tqj_k5b6obTAXbknXtK3YWkA711_f5iDWoARo

The 13th-century pages, found by chance at a British library, show a different side of Merlin, the magician who advised Camelot's king

#manuscript #medieval #Arthurian #british

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/08/i-dont-care-text-shows-modern-poetry-began-much-earlier-than-believed?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR06eirZjIo2zQweuYGUG94XzLojrAPYM-anjXs7CCpcYZvyPXFMFvZzzfk#Echobox=1631095021

Academic finds that lines widely reproduced in the eastern Roman empire are ‘stressed’ in a way that laid the foundations for what we recogn

#poetry #meter #Roman #ancient #world

https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-the-english-spelling-system-so-weird-and-inconsistent?fbclid=IwAR3DwRpw8T_sks5gxdTIn-tvmCVMPbnkTVgjsXu9fA0qIa-1JX4lfZu5IKU

Why is English spelling so weird and unpredictable? Don’t blame the mix of languages; look to quirks of timing and technology

#english #spelling #words #language

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https://lithub.com/what-a-13th-century-medieval-text-can-teach-us-about-queerness-and-gender/?fbclid=IwAR1M_DNbV1q_GTuSrZ_Mj-3hT0w5yMKm4FV_DMrnA-xS6rsFwcLKJolZTVo

The standard European “medieval chivalric legend” fulfills every stereotype of white patriarchy. There’s the helpless woman needing aid—or,

#medieval #british #romance #myth #women

https://classicalwisdom.com/culture/the-rape-of-a-goddess-how-greek-women-found-empowerment-through-myth-and-ritual/?fbclid=IwAR3XoRK5a45LAGdZ69K2GiNiXcMdUBnTdpYiwLt0fvFLPWaCtX1MTM8DeOo

Written by Mary Naples, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Clad in white robes and carrying torches, the dawn’s amber rays cast a golden

#goddess #myth #religion #Greece #ancient

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