The Shadow
More her than this transient flesh.
English Resources
zoo
George was watching the polar bear and Ms Simpson’s hat. He had decided to fall in love with a singer who would love only him and dedicate all her songs… Read More »zoo
Cath Corri :On the ward; in the regions of a neighbourhood?
The ward is a long ward full of chaotic things like beds and curtains and tea-trolleys. They have put me in a side room with blackened-out windows. Every four hours… Read More »Cath Corri :On the ward; in the regions of a neighbourhood?
Cath Corri: Epigrams
Using LANGUAGE TO WRITE and LIVE IN.It’s in not knowing, that we speak of the things that we know. Readers are friends; close and sometimes removed – intimate and incestuous… Read More »Cath Corri: Epigrams
Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway: The Opening
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming.… Read More »Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway: The Opening
Ali Smith: Girl meets Boy
We were tangled in each other’s arms so that I wasn’t sure whose hand that was by my head, was it hers or mine? I moved my hand. The hand… Read More »Ali Smith: Girl meets Boy
Mansfield and Woolf in Kew Gardens!
In August 1917, Virginia invited Katherine to spend a few days with them at Asheham. At the end of July, Katherine had been staying with Ottoline Morrell at Garsington; she… Read More »Mansfield and Woolf in Kew Gardens!
Carol Ann Duffy: The World's Wife
Is this a knock out collection or merely subversive? Or a strangely moving recognition of love gone wrong?
The World's Wife: Carol Ann Duffy
Mrs Lazarus I had grieved. I had wept for a night and a dayover my loss, ripped the cloth I was married infrom my breasts, howled, shrieked, clawedat the… Read More »The World's Wife: Carol Ann Duffy
Charm?
When you had dinner with Gladstone, you were left feeling that he was the most charming person you had ever met. But after dinner with Disraeli, you felt that you… Read More »Charm?
Virginia Woolf: Modern Fiction 1925
Look within and life, it seems, is very far from being “like this”. Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial,… Read More »Virginia Woolf: Modern Fiction 1925
Prose Fiction 2: Essay Questions. Choose an essay question from one of the questions below. The essay should focus upon two texts on the course and should be… Read More »
Mansfield: Prelude
THERE was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother’s lap was full… Read More »Mansfield: Prelude
more hands
George felt for the weight of his Aunt’s hand behind his eyes and tried to breathe just slowly enough to find her touch again. He could not see her skin.… Read More »more hands
Sensory Impressions in James Joyce's The Dead
He waited outside the drawing-room door until the waltz should finish, listening to the skirts that swept against it and to the shuffling of feet. He was still discomposed by… Read More »Sensory Impressions in James Joyce's The Dead
Confidence!
Although they are only breath, words which I command are immortal (sappho, 600BC)
e e cummings: it is at moments after I have dreamed
it is at moments after i have dreamedof the rare entertainment of your eyes,when(being fool to fancy)i have deemed with your peculiar mouth my heart made wise;at moments when the… Read More »e e cummings: it is at moments after I have dreamed
e.e.cummings: somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond by E. E. Cummings somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyondany experience,your eyes have their silence:in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,or… Read More »e.e.cummings: somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
T.S.Eliot's Burnt Norton and Winnie Verloc in Conrad's The Secret Agent: Correspondences?
Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time future,And time future contained in time past.If all time is eternally presentAll time is unredeemable.What might have been is an… Read More »T.S.Eliot's Burnt Norton and Winnie Verloc in Conrad's The Secret Agent: Correspondences?
Sonnet XVII: Pablo Neruda
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in… Read More »Sonnet XVII: Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda: Lost in the Forest
Lost in the forest… Lost in the forest, I broke off a dark twigand lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips:maybe it was the voice of the rain crying,a… Read More »Pablo Neruda: Lost in the Forest
New Gabrielle and Paul Weller: Why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNhCMzA1T30 Keep hearing this as I drive and it already sounds like a ‘classic’ soul anthem. Gabrielle’s voice is a throaty gift and the lyrics soar and seem inevitable..as if… Read More »New Gabrielle and Paul Weller: Why?
Love Sonnet XI Pablo Neruda I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all dayI hunt… Read More »
Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher
DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone,… Read More »Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher
Emma's world
Jane Austen has a truly relentless gaze. Think Cobra in a sitting room? Just been rereading the first few chapters and am dazzled by the easefulness of her scrutiny, moving… Read More »Emma's world
Emma by Jane Austen
‘Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich…’ Who could resist this heroine? !!!