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Highlighted itemsTHE ABUSED LOVER SEETH HIS FOLLY, AND INTENDETH TO TRUST NO MORE
PINby Sir Thomas Wyat
am 2025-12-13
AS never file yet half so well yfiled, To file a file for any smith's intent, As I was made a filing instrument, To frame other, while that I was beguiled : But reason, lo, hath at my folly smiled, And pardoned me, sins that I me repent Of my lost years, and of my …
Robert Burns
Literatuream 2026-01-23
Robert Burns was born in 1759, in Alloway, Scotland, to William and Agnes Brown Burnes. Like his father, Burns was a tenant farmer. However, toward the end of his life he became an excise collector in Dumfries, where he died in 1796; throughout his life he was also a practicing poet. His poetry recorded and celebrated aspects of farm life, regional experience, traditional culture, class culture and distinctions, and religious practice. He is considered the national poet of Scotland. Although …
'There's no other poem like it': Why this Robert Burns classic is a masterpiece
Literatureby BBC
am 2026-01-23
Tam O'Shanter is a rip-roaring tale of witches and alcohol, but it has hidden depths. On Burns Night this Sunday – and 235 years after Tam O'Shanter was published in 1791 – Scots everywhere may well be treated to a masterwork with a unique, universal appeal.
Richard III
Literatureby Shakespear
am 2025-12-31
- "O, Wonderfull when devil sell the truth" - "The world has become so bad that now little wrens have settled where eagles used to roost. Since every peasant has been made into a nobleman, many noblemen have been dragged down to the level of peasants". 1. Wrens → Small, ordinary, unremarkable birds 2. Roost → A place where birds perch or settle for rest - What, were you snarling all before I came, Ready to catch each other by …
Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Literatureby Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
am 2025-12-20
The Poem's Central Theme: The Pathetic Fallacy Surrey masterfully uses the pathetic fallacy—attributing human emotions to nature. The entire poem contrasts the external world ("Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale") with the speaker's internal, unchanging winter of emotional pain. Nature: Moves from winter to spring; hills "rejoice," birds sing. The Lover: Remains stuck in a state of frozen grief, his "winter" perpetual despite the season's change. The joyous renewal around him only makes his stasis more painful. Full …