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Document Say What You Still See: Stasis and pastoral imagery in John Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1819) and Leigh Hunt's 'The Calendar of Nature [May]' (1819) by Nicholas Dunn-McAfee

This paper interrogates similar examples of stasis in pastoral imagery in John Keats’s poem ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ and Leigh Hunt’s...

Imagery, Pastoral, Poetry view
Document Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector: Perceived as ‘King in all but name’? The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Widening the Evidence Base in History by Alexandra Owen

This article focuses on the nature of historical evidence, that is evidence which might be useful to a
historian, in an increasingly...

John Dryden, Poetry, Oliver Cromwell, English Civil War view
Document Introduction to Mystical Islamic Poetry 6

An overview of the period 1390-1518 spanned by the four poets studied on this course: Hafez (d.1492); Kabir (d. 1518); Jami (d.1492); A'ishah al-B...

Mysticism, Poetry, Islam view
Document Possession and the Apostrophe

How to use an apostrophe to indicate possession.

Creative Writing, Poetry, Prose, Grammar, Apostrophe view
Document The Angel in the House and Fallen Women: Assigning Women their Places in Victorian Society, Sarah Kuhl

This article juxtaposes Coventry Patmore’s poem ‘The Angel in the House’ and William Holman Hunt’s painting ‘The Awakening Conscience’, examining...

Pre-raphaelite, 19th century, Victorian, Gender, feminism, Poetry view
Document Unconventional Subjects: A very British approach to dealing with extraordinary people considered through a portrait of the Begum Samru, by Jiwan Ram, and The History of Zeb-ul-Nissa the Begum Samru of Sardhana, a poem by Lalla Gokul Chand by Amy Marshall

In the early nineteenth century the British were consolidating their position in India and control of the country was expanding. Their...

19th century, Propaganda, Company portrait, East India Company, Mogul, Poetry view
Document ‘This subtile wreath’: the significance of hair in John Donne’s ‘The Relique’ and an example of seventeenth century hair lace by Amy Norton

This essay explores the significance of hair in John Donne’s ‘The Relique’ and an example of hair lace from the early seventeenth century. Whether...

hair, Poetry view
Document Introduction to Islamic Mystical Poetry 3

An overview of the course and a recap of Islamic Mystical Poetry 1 & 2

Islam, Mysticism, Poetry view
Document Remembering King Charles I: History, Art And Polemics From The Restoration To The Reform Act, T. J. Allen

The term Restoration can be used simply to refer to the restored monarchy under Charles II, following the Commonwealth period. But it can also be...

Political history, Restoration, Poetry view
Document Commas

A practical approach to using commas in creative writing.

Creative Writing, Rewriting, Poetry, Prose, Commas view
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