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Water on a stone, wax on a stone: revolutionary war era/founding father quote
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What kind of sonnet is Sonnet 24 of Sidney's “Astrophel and Stella”?
Awarded Jan 14 at 4:27
What does Albert Camus mean with “they remembered pleasure”?
Awarded Jan 11 at 22:27
How do we know that Shelley's “Adonais” refers to Byron and Moore?
Awarded Jan 11 at 5:36
“Leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment”
Awarded Jan 10 at 22:06
How much time did one canto in Dante's Divine Comedy represent (if any)?
Awarded Jan 6 at 10:34
What is the relationship between the hypotext and the intertext?
Awarded Jan 4 at 21:12
Quote source - “if memories could bleed, if dreams could scream”
Awarded Jan 4 at 6:17
Terminology for a novel about writing a novel
Awarded Jan 3 at 7:15
Whence come the self-referential historical notes in “The Crucible”?
Awarded Jan 2 at 22:21
Is there any example of a hero saluting his fallen adversary and regretting the need to vanquish him?
Awarded Dec 28 '20 at 0:35
Identification of a short story about a short irrefutable self-evident proof that God exists that is kept secret
Awarded Dec 25 '20 at 15:49
1960s kids book with “invisible” dust which people think improves everything but doesn't actually exist
Awarded Dec 25 '20 at 14:26
Are Gutenberg books illegal to sell in Germany?
Awarded Dec 22 '20 at 17:33
Help identify the story “I did not sell my child”; ends with the grown up child deserting parents
Awarded Dec 22 '20 at 13:31
Symbolism and romanticism as literary movements
Awarded Dec 21 '20 at 21:27
Horatio Hornblower book as part of anthology?
Awarded Dec 21 '20 at 18:46
Bother to report errors in books to authors?
Awarded Dec 19 '20 at 20:35
Who is Mary in Black Beauty?
Awarded Dec 19 '20 at 0:08
What are the poetic devices used in this poem and how do they relate to its meaning?
Awarded Dec 18 '20 at 6:06
Understanding Shyam Saran's “How India sees the world”
Awarded Dec 16 '20 at 13:45
What is the origin of a common Christmas tree quotation concerning an old Babylonish fable about an evergreen tree?
Awarded Dec 14 '20 at 16:33
“Tragic” vs “Tragedy”
Awarded Dec 13 '20 at 13:13
Name of this lyrical device comparing oneself to something that's described by the same word, but in another sense of the word?
Awarded Dec 12 '20 at 17:09
Is it a widespread tradition to inscribe family trees in the back of holy books?
Awarded Dec 12 '20 at 16:11
Mystifying reference in “Anna Karenina”
Awarded Dec 10 '20 at 19:56
Identifying allusions in Eric Jarosinski's poem “TWEET”
Awarded Dec 7 '20 at 17:50
Looking for a mystery novel series whose protagonists are two old retired women
Awarded Dec 7 '20 at 8:46
What is the context and origin of this Dante quote?
Awarded Dec 5 '20 at 23:31
Numbering of Petrarch's sonnets
Awarded Nov 26 '20 at 18:55
What did George Orwell try to communicate with “Animal Farm”?
Awarded Nov 26 '20 at 3:48
How to figure out if something is iambic pentameter?
Awarded Nov 23 '20 at 13:40
How to scan the “Clark” poem from “One Fish, Two Fish”?
Awarded Nov 15 '20 at 17:10
Ian McEwan's quote “No more magical realism” in Saturday
Awarded Nov 14 '20 at 10:57
Meaning of “Elizabeth Childers” by Edgar Lee Masters?
Awarded Nov 12 '20 at 10:30
Melville's chain of thought in the “great democratic God” passage in “Moby-Dick”
Awarded Nov 12 '20 at 10:10
Why do the Pern novels use regular words as profanity?
Awarded Nov 11 '20 at 0:25
How can I get better at remembering the subject in lengthy, complicated passages (poems or otherwise)?
Awarded Nov 10 '20 at 2:57
Meaning of a sentence in “Ind Aff or Out of Love in Sarajevo”
Awarded Nov 6 '20 at 20:43
How many people did Alexandr Sergeevich Pushkin kill in duels before d'Anthès stopped him?
Awarded Nov 4 '20 at 13:53
What does “in the coils of the commonplace” mean?
Awarded Nov 4 '20 at 2:16
A Clockwork Orange: Latvian translation of Nadsat
Awarded Nov 3 '20 at 21:42
Gore Vidal’s book about the Mexican-American war: was anything published?
Awarded Nov 2 '20 at 5:05
Why is Macbeth's “vaulting ambition” so important and famous?
Awarded Oct 31 '20 at 8:40
Why do peasants in 19th century Russian literature often have Greek names?
Awarded Oct 30 '20 at 22:45
A king commissioned an ever growing map of his kingdom
Awarded Oct 29 '20 at 19:31
Is there a Reader's Guide to Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Awarded Oct 26 '20 at 22:21
In “Howl”, what does “Blake-light tragedy” mean?
Awarded Oct 26 '20 at 2:35
What does “It is not meet” mean in “Idylls of the King”?
Awarded Oct 22 '20 at 21:16
Novel about a man who voluntarily has himself locked in another man's basement
Awarded Oct 22 '20 at 18:48
Poem about a joker with disorganized attire
Awarded Oct 22 '20 at 10:11
What are “deadly voids and unbidden infidelities” in “Moby-Dick”?
Awarded Oct 20 '20 at 6:56
English translation of “I will not see the famous Phaedra”?
Awarded Oct 20 '20 at 1:26
What is “the waste” and why is it “no whit lesser than thy land” in “Richard II”?‎
Awarded Oct 18 '20 at 10:21
Why does Poe's “Arthur Gordon Pym” become so Technical and Scientific all of a sudden?
Awarded Oct 14 '20 at 18:21
What does Victor Hugo mean by “the red ant heaps of Toulon”?
Awarded Oct 13 '20 at 18:42
Examples of Zeus's Immoral Nature [closed]
Awarded Oct 10 '20 at 21:35
The Brothers Karamazov - What is the “Chain bridge”?
Awarded Oct 10 '20 at 14:27
Harry Potter German translation - use of word “Eingeweide”
Awarded Oct 5 '20 at 15:33
In the end, was no one loyal to Macbeth and willing to fight for him, and why?
Awarded Sep 29 '20 at 17:42
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