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Meaning of "the field was found to be plowed as thoroughly as any young man at Oxford" in 'The Book of Dragons'

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Accented è in Blake's "The little ones leapèd, and shoutèd, and laugh'd / And all the hills echoèd."

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Who was the "Dutch author", "Bumstone Bumstone"?

23 votes

Detective novel: “1.5 gallons of blood doesn’t sound like a lot to most people. Pour 1.5 gallons of milk on your kitchen floor and get back to me.”

22 votes

Why did the alexandrine become the "natural" metre for French verse drama, whereas English renaissance drama adopted the iambic pentameter?

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Meaning of "The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed" in "Ozymandias"

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In Ozymandias, who is the "ye" in the line "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" meant to be addressing?

19 votes

Why did Gabriela Mistral adopt a pseudonym instead of using her real name?

19 votes
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Was C. S. Lewis condemning nuclear weapons in The Magician's Nephew?

18 votes

Were all of Shakespeare's plays fully in iambic pentameter?

17 votes

What does 'levee' mean in the Three Musketeers?

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Did Rudyard Kipling Write "The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon"?

16 votes

Origin of the phrase "Open Sesame"

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What does "men of straw" refer to in this passage from an Arsène Lupin story?

14 votes

Why does the Iliad start "in the middle"?

13 votes

Do the poisons in "Ode on Melancholy" have deeper meaning?

13 votes

Story where professor claims a step in a proof "is obvious" when it is far from obvious

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Which story from 'One Thousand and One Nights' does the following artwork by Léon Carré depict?

13 votes
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British Duke is murdered in elevator. Title is inherited by one of a pair of identical twins, both of whom are suspects

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Meaning of "See you at the A and P" in Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet

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Can someone explain to me these verses from The Faerie Queene?

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Who first claimed that Blake’s “dark Satanic Mills” referred to the Church of England, and what was their argument?

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Why did Urquhart choose "neck of a goose" in his English translation of Gargantua?

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What is the "wash" for which Charles Lyell paid 4 shillings and sixpence?

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Is this François de La Rochefoucauld's quote authentic?

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Meaning of "And do not drop in for an after-loss" in Shakespeare's sonnet 90

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Meaning (likelihood, credibility) of "but the only trouble was that I'd never seen you before" in Our Town by Thornton Wilder

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Francis Bacon's "The Advancement of Learning"

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Two sisters live alone in a house after the rest of their family died

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What is the meaning of "chabeen" in Conde's "The Gospel According to the New World"?

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