Articles populaires – { Persuasion }

23 mai 2011

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

23 novembre 2012

'My True-Love Hath My Heart'

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given: I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss; There never was a bargain better driven. His heart in me keeps me and him in one, My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides;...

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Tags: 16th century, Elizabeth, Poetry, Sir Philip Sidney

4 septembre 2011

‘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

28 juin 2012

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

25 juin 2013

Emily Brontë ('I’m happiest when most away')

(from mmorrow) I’m happiest when most awayI can bear my soul from its home of clayOn a windy night when the moon is brightAnd the eye can wonder through worlds of light— When I am not and none beside—Nor earth nor sea nor cloudless sky—But only spirit...

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Tags: Poetry, Brontë, Emily Brontë

30 mars 2014

Extract from Frances Burney's Evelina

(picture from I Capture the Period Pieces) As we entered the shop, I observed a young man, in deep morning, leaning against the wall, with his arms folded, and his eyes fixed on the ground, apparently in profound and melancholy meditation: but the moment...

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Tags: 18th century, Novel

30 octobre 2012

En kongelig affære - A Royal Affair

It’s been a while since I saw this film, and I do apologise for the poor ‘review’ I shall make of it (can we even call that a review? Please Reader, don’t take these writings too seriously, they are the result of a daydreamer’s reflections). To give you...

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Tags: Age of Reason, Film

13 octobre 2012

News from England, or How to Survive a First Week of Seminars

Source image: Sara’s wonderful tumblr. A fter fighting with my curtains, going and coming to different conferences and meetings for postgraduates (on ‘how you’ll have no social life at all during your studies’, gloups!), meeting other students (including...

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Tags: MA, Studies

12 octobre 2012

'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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15 mai 2011

'I was persuaded'

Dear Reader, The reason for which I decided to create this little space of words is that soon, I will be twenty, and I realised that I felt it necessary to leave a part of my youth, a bunch of memories somewhere. Last year in September, I packed some...

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7 janvier 2012

'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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18 octobre 2011

'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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24 novembre 2011

‘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

5 décembre 2012

'Graduation Day' ou comment passer officiellement à la case 'Postgraduate'

30th November 2012, Canterbury

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Tags: University

25 janvier 2013

Lack of Inspiration n°1

Where are the words ?

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30 mars 2014

'Billet n°4'

I am currently Reading: Evelina, by Frances Burney Hoping to: be able to finish my pierrot jacket before May 25th. Looking for: a job. Listening to: Regõ Rejtem, by The Moon and the Nightspirit. In the mood of: the 1780s.

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30 octobre 2012

'Yet I remember'

Dear Reader, During my second university year, I used to visit this place as often as I could. Can you guess where I was ? Is it a sense of melancholy , or a burst of excitement at the thought of the graduation that made me post this?

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19 mai 2011

'Billet n°1'

I am currently Reading: The Massacre at Paris, by Christopher Marlowe. Hoping for: the end of the exam session. Looking for: Twelfth Night in the Arden edition. Listening to: Fídhe Ra Hurí, by Omnia. In the mood of: the 18th century. Studying: in revisions...

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14 janvier 2012

'Veni Veni Bella'

by The Mediaeval Baebes

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Tags: Mediaeval Baebes

23 novembre 2011

Framboise toute pâle

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

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15 octobre 2012

'In Vérino Veritas'

C'est tellement ça. En fait.

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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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