‘Thank You’
I have my GCSE and A Level students to thank for this practice being on my mind.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Casablanca
Casablanca’s sentimental script boasts some of the most memorable and repeated lines in popular culture.
Read MoreGreat Lines: John Steinbeck
Steinbeck’s style is uncomplicated and unadorned, but in these ways uncommonly clear and incisive.
Read MoreGreat Lines: William Wordsworth
Wordsworth imagines the absolute truth of life and existence in the world around him, and within himself.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Zora Neale Hurston
This blog series is devoted to great lines that strike - in literature, speech, music and film.
Read MoreThe Love of Language - Part 1: Sound Effects
These ‘sound tools’ makes analysis infinitely more enjoyable, as they give students a license to describe the effects of language in fun and satisfying ways.
Read More2020: An End and a Start
Four Quartets is considered Eliot’s masterpiece, and its final lines suggest the culmination of his life’s work in this contribution: Life can be purified in the present.
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