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Looking for a SF/alternate history book about a 19th century style explorer who navigates lands with corrupted fauna and flora

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Rumi quotation on how dancing is not painless

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What style/Form is the Stranger's Poem in, from The Magnus Archives?

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What is the significance of Nick being gay in The Great Gatsby?

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What is the meaning of "They don't let you" in "The House At Pooh Corner"?

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Accuracy of the translation of Baudelaire's "Au Lecteur": how to forge an opinion?

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Where was the first English playhouse outside London built?

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Use of "antithesis" by Jack London

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What is the evidence that R. K. Narayan was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature multiple times?

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Bad Grammar in The Great Gatsby?

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A quote supposedly by Jean de La Fontaine

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Why the capitalization of "Heavens" in Rudyard Kipling's "The Secret of the Machines"?

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Three Musketeers - the diamond studs

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Is Steinbeck's "The Moon is Down" set in Norway?

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Was the assassination plot in The Thirty-Nine Steps based on any real plot?

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What is the metre of "High Waving Heather" by Emily Bronte?

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What is the meaning of "The first rocket flamed to Heaven"?

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In metrical poetry, what is equal timed?

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How to scan Wyatt's "They flee from me"?

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Where is the yellow in "pasqualines" from Finnegans Wake?

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Meaning of "through the smoky air."

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Why did Victor Hugo write that "the interior of the soul" is "grander than the sky"?

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How can a farmstead be situated in its paddock?

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What's the first appearance of the rhyme about "He died defending his right of way"?

answered Apr 21, 2021 at 17:22

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How do we know that Shelley's "Adonais" refers to Byron and Moore?

answered Jan 9, 2021 at 13:42

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Did "drink to someone" imply the same thing back then?

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Symbolism and romanticism as literary movements

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What do Mohawks and scaffolding mean in this line from Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm?

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What do the saint, the angel, the musician and the sandalwood refer to in Mallarmé's poem Sainte?

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What are the originals of the poems Tagore has translated from English into Bengali?

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Looking for a SF/alternate history book about a 19th century style explorer who navigates lands with corrupted fauna and flora

Rumi quotation on how dancing is not painless

What style/Form is the Stranger's Poem in, from The Magnus Archives?

What is the significance of Nick being gay in The Great Gatsby?

What is the meaning of "They don't let you" in "The House At Pooh Corner"?

Accuracy of the translation of Baudelaire's "Au Lecteur": how to forge an opinion?

Where was the first English playhouse outside London built?

Use of "antithesis" by Jack London

What is the evidence that R. K. Narayan was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature multiple times?

Bad Grammar in The Great Gatsby?

A quote supposedly by Jean de La Fontaine

Why the capitalization of "Heavens" in Rudyard Kipling's "The Secret of the Machines"?

Three Musketeers - the diamond studs

Is Steinbeck's "The Moon is Down" set in Norway?

Was the assassination plot in The Thirty-Nine Steps based on any real plot?

What is the metre of "High Waving Heather" by Emily Bronte?

What is the meaning of "The first rocket flamed to Heaven"?

In metrical poetry, what is equal timed?

How to scan Wyatt's "They flee from me"?

Where is the yellow in "pasqualines" from Finnegans Wake?

Meaning of "through the smoky air."

Why did Victor Hugo write that "the interior of the soul" is "grander than the sky"?

How can a farmstead be situated in its paddock?

What's the first appearance of the rhyme about "He died defending his right of way"?

How do we know that Shelley's "Adonais" refers to Byron and Moore?

Did "drink to someone" imply the same thing back then?

Symbolism and romanticism as literary movements

What do Mohawks and scaffolding mean in this line from Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm?

What do the saint, the angel, the musician and the sandalwood refer to in Mallarmé's poem Sainte?

What are the originals of the poems Tagore has translated from English into Bengali?