Christmas break means Christmas reading
I had already met Húrin and the tales of Turin Turambar in the Silmarillion, but this time it is told in further details. If it all sounded harrowing and poignant in the previous book now it just sounds tragic. Somehow knowing the details of what happened to Turin and [...]
Archive for December, 2008
‘The Children of Húrin’ by J.R.R. Tolkien
Posted in Fiction, tagged English literature, Lord of the Rings on 30 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘Engleby’ by Sebastian Faulks
Posted in Fiction, tagged contemporary writing, English literature on 21 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I take for granted that all narrators are unreliable, but I had never read a book where this is so flagrant. All your attempts to pin Engleby, the character, down will be fruitless because even when you think you are seeing him from another person’s perspective, you are actually just having access to his reading [...]
Kubla Khan
Posted in Poetry, tagged Coleridge, Poetry, Romantics on 6 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Coleridge is definitely one of my favourite poets – perhaps only second to Will
One of these days one of my tutors mentioned Kubla Khan in our Reseach module because someone decided to investigate how much Coleridge’s readings before writing it influenced in his composition of the poem. I’ll have to ask Katy [...]
