GRAPHIC about social distancing.
4/4/20
Laptops/Technology in the classroom: mixed reviews.
They found Elizabeth I's Skirt!!!
Looking for some binge TV: check out DETECTORISTS as they seek the Holy Grail of Treasure Hunters.
They've had multiple monarchs with Golden (50) Jubilees.
Only two Diamond Jubilees (Victoria and Elizabeth II).
Now, get ready for the first ever Sapphire Jubilee on 6 February 2017.
Prince Charles is the Oldest Heir in British History--probably not something he wanted to be
09/19/13
Eleven Nouns That Only Have A Plural Form
09/19/13
The Hollow Crown.
09/18/13
You're Using That Dash Wrong
09/18/13
Poem of the Week: "The Unquiet Grave"
09/12/13
THE GUARDIAN'S Poem of the Week for all who love the Cavalier Poets.
09/10/13
Take a look at UT's HRC.
08/31/13
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Hey, Dickens Lovers: Check out "Mugby Junction"
10/03/12
It’s good to be king . . . er, Duke.
10/03/12
A Writer's Generosity (along with some insights into the creative process).
10/02/12
More on the discovery of Richard III's body.
09/28/12
Fun interactive electoral map (with balloons!).
09/27/12
Going to London? Check out the Pre-Raphaelites at the Tate.
09/27/12
From beyond the grave: O. Henry shares his writing secrets.
09/13/12
Hurrah for the Norton Anthology of English Literature! It's 50 years old.
08/27/12
Is Richard III 'buried under council car park'? What an opportunity for historic vindication for his supporters. If his body is found, we may be able to determine if he was indeed a hunchback or had some of the other deformities commonly attributed to him.
08/24/12
Bad Idea: Cutting back on sleep to get ahead
08/24/12
The Story of English Spelling
08/23/12
Jesuit Poetry in the news.
08/20/12
Jesuits in British history: Elizabethan state "doctored evidence of priest's treason"
Poem of the week.
03/07/12
MFAH sponsors Google 4 Doodle Contest: Win $30,000.00!
Guided Tour of Dickens birthplace.
02/08/12
Notetaking Strategies from the Art of Manliness.
02/08/12
Teen Book Con is coming to Houston in April.
London Pictures from the Dickens' Era
--01/19/12
"Silvered tureen of snobbery"? Oh, my. Here's Schama's assessment of Downton Abbey.
--01/19/12
Without Dickens' Barnaby Rudge there would be no Edgar Allan Poe.
"The Raven," Poe's most famous poem, inspired by Boz.
--Posted 01/13/12
Last essay by Christopher Hitchens. Of course, he writes of Dickens.
--Posted 01/13/12
The Dreaded Comma Splice.
--Posted 01/13/12
You don't have to like him, but you're impoverished if you don't.
--Posted 01/09/12
"Get Off That Ship!": Father Brown's Titanic Album.
--Posted 01/09/12
The Guardian's Top 10 Graphic Novels. I haven't read all of them, but I highly recommend Alice in Sunderland and Persepolis.
--Posted 11/02/11
New rules for royal succession.
--Posted 10/28/11
Poe's Cottage restored.
--Posted 10/28/11
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
--Posted 10/24/11
An "Apopleptic" Professor's Look at Anonymous.
--Posted 10/24/11
Nice! (or not)
--Posted 10/20/11
How to write an important novel.
--Posted 10/19/11
Ben Jonson: Poet and Bully
--Posted 10/17/11
Agincourt: England's finest hour, or the beginning of the end?
--Posted 10/17/11
Who wrote Shakespeare's plays? At the movies.
--Posted 10/17/11
How many can you name? How many do you recognize?
--Posted 10/12/11
Two--count them!--two new Dickens biographies. Claire Tomalin's previous book, The Invisible Woman, was outstanding.
--Posted 10/03/11
Great English Dates: 1215
--Posted 10/03/11
How to memorize anything.
--Posted 10/03/11
Maybe Dickens was not so far-fetched in Bleak House: Irish Coroner Finds Spontaneous Human Combustion.
--Posted 09/29/11
Flow Chart of Sci-Fi Novels
--Posted 09/29/11
Lady Dedlock
Characters from Dickens! The Bicentennial approaches.
--Poested 09/22/11
Poets on Stamps! Is your favorite included?
--Posted 09/22/11
New books from Seuss, Sendak, and Silverstein!
--Posted 09/22/11
What's wrong with the movie version of Beowulf?
--Posted 03/30/2011
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--UPDATED 09/13/11
Opera made about Rick Rescorla: The Heart of a Soldier. Read the book by the same name.
--Posted 09/12/11
Get ready to celebrate the Dickens Bicentennial!
--Posted 09/08/11
Jesuits sell oldest bound book to British Library
--Posted 09/07/11
Literary Graveyards.
--Posted 08/31/11
James Franco and Shelley?
--Posted 03/30/2011
Keats letter sells at auction.
--Posted 03/30/2011
Seamus Heaney wins a prize. (Who's he?)
--Posted 10/08/2010
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Interesting idea (with a Wodehousian nod). Note: please ignore
anti-Bleak House rhetoric; author is clearly mistaken.
--Posted 09/27/2010
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Everyone needs a hero.
--Posted 09/25/2010
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The restrictions on the monarchy continue apace. The article contains background information as well.
--Posted 09/24/2010
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Manly virtues in Beowulf.
--Posted 09/22/2010
Drill, Baby, Drill!
--Posted 09/19/2010
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Menil set to compile Jasper Johns catalog.
--Posted 09/10/2010
The New York Times on recent research regarding study habits.
--Posted 09/08/2010
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RIP for print edition of OED.
For history and information about the OED, read Simon Winchester's
book The Professor and the Madman.
--Posted 08/29/2010
Archeologists find home of Odysseus.
--Posted 08/26/2010
Anglo Saxons in the news: Staffordshire Hoard update.
--Posted 08/19/2010
Bernard Knox has died.
--Posted 08/18/2010
