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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Edward Thomas’s poem ‘Rain’ was written in 1916, while Thomas was fighting in the trenches. ‘Rain’ is about Thomas’s experience of sittin...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Not Waving but Drowning’ is the best-known poem by Stevie Smith (1902-71). In 1995, it was voted Britain’s fourth favourite poem in a poll. Fi...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s most perennially popular and widely studied plays. Its story of ‘star-cross’d lovers’, whose love fo...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) If, as the old quip has it, Hamlet is a great play but it has too many quotations in it, a similar charge might be laid against Macbeth, one of Shake...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Queen Elizabeth I’s speech to the troops at Tilbury is among the most famous and iconic speeches in English history. On 9 August 1588, Elizabeth ad...

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