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I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief expo...

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

There is a vast expanse of time before the Norman Conquest in 1066, from which fragments of literary texts remain, although these fragments make quite a substantial body of work. If we consider that the same expanse of time has passed between Shakesp...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Johnson's later life, from 1763, is among the best documented of all literary lives. James Boswell gave himself the enormous task, after Johnson's death in 1784, of producing what is now held to be a model of biography; rich in detail and anecdote, a...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

There is a remarkable degree of consistency in the way mediaeval literature affirms humanity. With all its faults, humanity emerges as more realistic than heavenly ideals. ...... Because the mediaeval period is seen from our own times as historically...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

The Renaissance did not break completely with mediaeval history and values. Sir Philip Sidney is often considered the model of the perfect Renaissance gentleman. He embodied the mediaeval virtues of the knight (the noble warrior), the lover (the man ...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

At the end of the 1400s, the world changed. Two key dates can mark the beginning of modern times. In 1485, the Wars of the Roses came to an end, and, following the invention of printing, William Caxton issued the first imaginative book to be publishe...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically he studied the scores of the great masters. At the end of the first year he was asked to submit a religious wor...

The Pearl Fishers: Vocal Score (French, English Language Edition), Vocal Score

The human mind is itself a miraculous machine. I am writing right now, but I have no idea how this is happening. I know that my brain is composed of a cerebrum, a cerebellum, and a medulla oblongata, but these are just words. I know that electrical i...

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I have not been nourished by English Literature. . . for the simple reason that I have never found much there in which to rest my heart (or heart and head together). I was brought up in the Classics, and first discovered the sensation of literary ple...

J.R.R. Tolkien

Little Bill Daggett: It's been a long time, Bob. You run out of Chinamen? English Bob: Little Bill, well I thought you was, well I thought that you were dead. I see you've shaved your chin whiskers off. Little Bill Daggett: I was tasting the soup two...

Unforgiven

How come "burbled" gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but "tulgy" doesn't? Hm?

Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island

In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama

Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.

England My England: Anglophilia Explained

The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.

English Traits

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English

Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.

Galápagos

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

British Bulldog

The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;

Cloud Atlas

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

Annie Dillard

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

Daniel Suarez

Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions, another game, a new country. They are also young, receptive, can move mountains.

Jaromir Jagr