WB Yeats Pencil Set – The Second Coming
The Second Coming In November 2020 I was on twitter and I caught a video of the Irish ambassador in Washington DC reading a Yeats poem. The poem was called...
The Second Coming In November 2020 I was on twitter and I caught a video of the Irish ambassador in Washington DC reading a Yeats poem. The poem was called...
My favourite poems In honour of international poetry day I have compiled a list of 25 of my favourite poems. From modern poets like Mary Oliver and Seamus Heaney to the...
Five of the best feminist quotes Today is international women's day, and in celebration and also reflection, I have put together five of my favourite quotes on feminism. By some of...
World Book Day Today is World Book Day. I mean in my life every day is book day! But 24 years ago in 1995 UNESCO created this day to celebrate books...
Jane Austen was a prolific letter writer, devastatingly for us, her family with no foresight to the future fame of their sister, burned a large part of her letters. So...
It was a Saturday On the 16th of October in 1847 the London Publishers; Smith, Elder and Company published Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre. It was published under her pen name Currer Bell....
Literature is a luxury; Fiction is a necessity Some Wednesday wisdom for you from GK Chesterton all the way back in 1901. In the Merriam Webster dictionary literature and fiction are...
Reading has always been my solace. It is the place I escape to to relax and unwind. I will nearly always choose a good book over a film or tv series....
Some wisdom for you this Wednesday from the greatness that was Ralph Waldo Emerson. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience Emerson, wise words as always. If you like this quote...