My first novel since I started the MEd course. No big news that the reading load for an MA is heavy but last weekend I was thirty for something else than professional reading. I have always wanted to read Wide Sargasso Sea but the novel had never felt into my hands till now that Edward is [...]
Archive for November, 2008
‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ by Jean Rhys
Posted in Fiction, tagged contemporary writing, women writers on 27 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When we two parted
Posted in Poetry, tagged Byron, Poetry, Romantics on 24 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
George Gordon (Lord) Byron (1788-1824)
When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this.
The dew of the morning
Sunk chill on my brow–
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now. [...]
