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Why did Andromache call the men of Sparta ‘devious plotters and the master of lies’?
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First-person point of view in chapter 61 of Pride and Prejudice
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Why are William Mcgonagall's poems considered so terrible?
Awarded Aug 19 at 19:32
What is meant by "rain drinks the leaves drinking rain" in "Kauai"?
Awarded Aug 16 at 15:17
Historical background of Dickinson's 'The Sun and Fog contested-'
Awarded Apr 26 at 23:22
Actual meaning of Shakespeare's sonnet 30
Awarded Apr 23 at 4:51
How did Dante know so much about geography and astronomy in his Purgatorio?
Awarded Mar 28 at 14:25
Which French author or critic claimed that Racine and La Fontaine could not be understood by foreigners?
Awarded Mar 23 at 11:56
What poetic techniques are used in The Farmer Remembers the Somme?
Awarded Dec 10, 2022 at 20:40
If Sauron made The One ring, why couldn't he just make another, even better, instead of searching for the first?
Awarded Nov 24, 2022 at 2:07
What essentially does Tolkien mean by "Fall, Mortality and The Machine"?
Awarded Nov 5, 2022 at 16:34
What's the significance of Moreta's Gather dress?
Awarded Oct 8, 2022 at 17:57
What did Miss Bentley see in "A Month By The Lake" by H. E. Bates?
Awarded Aug 15, 2022 at 6:04
Are all Aesop's fables available in English?
Awarded Jun 19, 2022 at 18:41
Why is the Reeve's hair cut like a priest's?
Awarded May 6, 2022 at 15:55
Typographical inconsistency in James Joyce's "Araby"
Awarded Mar 23, 2022 at 1:07
What does it mean to "floor peculiarities parabolous" in conics, from The Pirates of Penzance?
Awarded Mar 11, 2022 at 19:41
Why is wolf's bane "tight-rooted" in Keats' "Ode on Melancholy"?
Awarded Mar 7, 2022 at 12:56
Why is Romney’s pattern “on his nail” in “Aurora Leigh”?
Awarded Mar 5, 2022 at 19:03
Why is Seamus Heaney's "The Cure at Troy" so often quoted in political contexts?
Awarded Mar 4, 2022 at 16:47
What does "surface difficulty" mean here in "The Markenmore Mystery"?
Awarded Feb 9, 2022 at 6:33
What evidence is there for the "recession of accent" theory?
Awarded Feb 4, 2022 at 15:06
Stephen Spender's "An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum"
Awarded Feb 2, 2022 at 20:20
What does "worried stone" mean in this poem from "Tumor"?
Awarded Feb 2, 2022 at 15:45
How was the context of "Old Ironsides" clear at its first publication?
Awarded Feb 2, 2022 at 2:15
How did Maupassant's contemporaries respond to his play Musotte?
Awarded Jan 15, 2022 at 22:07
How did Maupassant's contemporaries respond to his play Une répétition?
Awarded Jan 15, 2022 at 8:27
What classic mystery novels and stories led to "the butler did it" becoming a cliché?
Awarded Jan 8, 2022 at 13:41
Which critic first claimed that Antigonus's dream was evidence of an earlier version of The Winter's Tale?
Awarded Jan 2, 2022 at 21:07
Who said something like: "I'm an atheist; but it's the Christian God in whom I don't believe"?
Awarded Dec 28, 2021 at 16:33
Why did Martin Eden live at night with the gods in a colossal nightmare?
Awarded Dec 1, 2021 at 11:45
Is this part of Mark Antony's speech to the conspirators in the play "Julius Caesar" meant to be honest?
Awarded Nov 13, 2021 at 3:04
Why is it that Hohenzollerns "can't help taking life seriously"?
Awarded Sep 21, 2021 at 12:21
What are the "unknown land" and "eye of faith" in "Our Casuarina Tree"?
Awarded Sep 2, 2021 at 0:49
How does "handwriting" provide evidence for dating Beowulf's composition to "the first half of the eighth century"?
Awarded Aug 28, 2021 at 14:25
Understanding and interpreting Yeats phases of the moon
Awarded Jun 20, 2021 at 15:41
What was the ethnicity of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights?
Awarded May 16, 2021 at 19:20
Meaning of dash and initial substitution in Charlotte Brontë's Villette
Awarded May 13, 2021 at 14:02
Where is dramatic irony present in Macbeth?
Awarded Mar 16, 2021 at 0:07
Is this line from Shelley’s A Lament an allusion to his Skylark?
Awarded Mar 15, 2021 at 23:18
Meaning and source of this quote by Ezra Pound
Awarded Mar 15, 2021 at 19:35
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Awarded Dec 12, 2020 at 16:31
Is Caliban of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" based on a real life character?
Awarded Nov 18, 2020 at 2:51
How to scan the "Clark" poem from "One Fish, Two Fish"?
Awarded Nov 3, 2020 at 5:16
Is there a Reader's Guide to Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Awarded Oct 10, 2020 at 2:42
What are "half-tips to the heels" in "The Touchstone"?
Awarded Oct 2, 2020 at 9:50
What does it mean for Venus to 'read my case' in Drummond of Hawthornden's madrigal?
Awarded Sep 12, 2020 at 6:32
When did the first Dramatis Personae appear outside of theatre?
Awarded May 18, 2020 at 17:52
Why was Welsh nationalist poet RS Thomas so critical of the Welsh people?
Awarded May 9, 2020 at 14:26
Meaning of "the matrons are very Sabines" in Fitzstephen's description of London
Awarded May 7, 2020 at 17:11
Scanning the line "And every spirit upon earth" in Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"
Awarded May 7, 2020 at 17:11
Meaning of "A phantasy which sometimes seizes warriors, unless they are game as bull-dogs and fox-terriers" in Byron's "Don Juan"
Awarded May 5, 2020 at 21:25
Thomas Hardy’s “The Man He Killed”
Awarded Apr 27, 2020 at 0:27
What is the history of the universe/canon/word-of-god approach to literature?
Awarded Apr 24, 2020 at 12:35
Meaning of "and beauty keeps itself still uppermost" (Aurora Leigh by Liz Browning)
Awarded Apr 18, 2020 at 22:57
Did the recipient receive twelve partridges or just one?
Awarded Apr 14, 2020 at 16:10
What image was in the Autostereogram?
Awarded Apr 12, 2020 at 17:25
What does "in the Ring" mean in "Because I could not stop for Death"?
Awarded Apr 9, 2020 at 3:25
Keats' views on beauty
Awarded Apr 7, 2020 at 6:10
In War and Peace, why do all the generals and Kutuzov consider it "impossible" to defend Moscow?
Awarded Feb 18, 2020 at 16:00
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