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12 octobre 2012

'Billet n°3'

'Billet n°3'
I am currently Reading: Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey and essays about the Renaissance. Hoping to: find a brilliant idea for the topic of my summer dissertation. *Fingers Crossed* Looking for: an edition of the play The Roaring Girl, by Thomas...
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8 octobre 2012

A Room With a View... Student accommodation

[Un écureuil a emporté la photo] C’est en luttant avec mes rideaux que j’ai enfin acknowledged que j’étais rentrée en Angleterre.
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28 juin 2012

Up and Away

Up and Away
I’ve been nearly completely absent from this blog in the past few months, and for that I apologise. With essays, orals, exams and the final year dissertation, I was quite busy during these last months as an undergraduate. But now it’s official: I obtained...
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Tags: 18th century,  Books,  University,  Vaux-le-Vicomte
14 janvier 2012

'Veni Veni Bella'

by The Mediaeval Baebes
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7 janvier 2012

'Happy New Year !'

'Happy New Year !'
Et hop, j’inaugure l’année 2012 avec un article en français (le premier sur ce blog !) que je dois bien à ma lectrice francophone depuis le temps que Persuasion a été créé ! En plus, ces derniers temps, je dois avouer que je n’ai pas été particulièrement...
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24 novembre 2011

‘A Song’, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.

‘A Song’, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.
‘Since he is gone, O then salt tears,Drown both mine eyes, and stop mine earsWith grief; my grief it is so much,It locks my smell up, taste, and touch.In me remains but little breath,Which quickly take away, O Death.’ ‘A Song’, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess...
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Tags: 17th century,  Charles I,  Poetry,  Margaret Cavendish
23 novembre 2011

Framboise toute pâle

[Triste Sourire] "J'ai perdu aux chaises musicales."
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18 octobre 2011

'Billet n°2'

'Billet n°2'
I am currently Reading: 1599, by James Shapiro and Hope and Glory, by Peter Clarke (well, I really need to read the last one for the univ') . Hoping to: have time to sleep. Looking for: inspiration for my next essays. Listening to: Rolling In the Deep,...
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4 septembre 2011

‘Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art’

‘Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art’
I did not discover John Keats’s life in Bright Star. Like many students in English, I already knew some of his poems, the romance with Fanny Brawne, his death and late recognition as one of the greatest English poets of the Romantic Age. I therefore believed...
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Tags: 19th century,  Romanticism,  Bright Star,  Keats
23 mai 2011

Sonnet 12 - W. Shakespeare

Sonnet 12 - W. Shakespeare
Sonnet 12 When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy...
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Tags: 16th century,  Elizabeth,  Poetry,  Shakespeare,  Time
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