Literature

Why do the English love Keats so?

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MULTIPLE AUTHORS The year 2021 is not just the anniversary of Dante’s death 700 years ago but also that of Keats 200 years ago. Fitting therefore to reflect on his life and poetry. The key question is why Keats holds…

100 Great Indian Poems

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ABHAY K. (From the Editor’s Note) On 10 December 1950, William Faulkner began his Nobel Prize acceptance speech with these words, “I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work – a life’s…

Message in a Bottle from D H Lawrence

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Messages in a bottle are passages, quoted from writers who lived in the past, conveying a message that can still be appreciated in the present. PAX All that matters is to be at one with You, the living God; to…

Laura Potts’ Chatterley

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JOHN I. CLARKE “Is this the kind of book you would wish your wife or servant to read?” There is no more infamous comment in British social history than that made by Chief Prosecutor Mervyn Griffiths-Jones at the Lady Chatterley’s…

Kola Tubosun and the Yorùbá language (Nigeria)

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Special Prize Ostana 2016 VALENTINA MUSMECI (edited by) «No one I know is doing such incredible, ground-breaking things to ensure that Yoruba, an indigenous Nigerian language, continues to enjoy dignity. There are very few people doing such great work with minority…

Traduzionetradizione

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CLAUDIA AZZOLA Issue No. 11 of the Traduzionetradizione journals - Editorial The present issue falls into two subjects: poetry and prose, the prose fiction of established nomenclature, presenting two extracts out of novels which outdo the plot and realism, and root in…

Message in a Bottle from Thomas Stearns Eliot

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Messages in a bottle are passages, quoted from writers who lived in the past, conveying a message that can still be appreciated in the present. Thomas Stearns Eliot (Saint Louis, 26 September 1888 – London, 4 January 1965) is one…