Scholar’s Scroll

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The One Who Rode Through Centuries on a Comma and Edited History with a Quill  Firelight, Fury, and Four-Letter Anglo-Saxon Words English literature began not with a preface, but a growl. Somewhere between Viking raids and questionable mead, stories were born—not written, but roared around hearth fires by bearded poets […]

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The One Who Read Between the Lines and Found Footnotes Arguing With Each Other Theoretical Disclaimer: This scroll may cause: Overthinking Aggressive footnoting Fear of metaphors Sudden bursts of clarity followed by existential dread Reader discretion is advised. Especially if you liked the book “just for the story.” Structuralism: There’s

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The One Who Waited for Godot and Brought Biscuits Just in Case After the Shouting, the Silence We had barely patched up the rubble left by the war when literature decided to take off its emotional corset and spiral inward. The early 20th century had already given us Yeats’s spirals,

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The One Who Took a Wrong Turn in Wessex and Ended Up in the Wasteland When Victoria Died and Modernity Showed Up Uninvited In 1901, Queen Victoria finally took off her crown and slipped into eternal silence, leaving behind: Half the globe colored pink on maps A literary legacy soaked

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The One Who Tiptoed Through Tea Parties, Fog, and Fictional Heartbreaks with a Quill The Queen, the Crown, and a World That Couldn’t Sit Still The Victorian Age officially began in 1832, just a few years before Queen Victoria herself ascended the throne in 1837—young, dainty, and utterly unaware she’d

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The One Who Followed a Skylark Into a Metaphor and Didn’t Come Back When Poetry Left the Drawing Room and Frolicked Into the Fields The Neoclassical Age was all about sharp minds and sharper tongues.But around the end of the 18th century, poetry looked in the mirror and said: “Maybe

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The One Who Took a Shortcut Through the Graveyard to Get to the Heart After the Banquet of Brain, Enter the Appetite for Emotion The Neoclassical Age had thrown one hell of a literary party.There were: Rhyme duels Epigram battles Mock-epics about snipped hair And so many metaphors, even the

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The One Who Survived the 18th Century’s Intellectual Sword Fights (With Style) Before We Begin, Let’s Powder Our Wigs Welcome to the Neoclassical Age, a literary period where every poet wore a cravat, every critic owned a dagger (disguised as a quill), and every woman carried both a fan and

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The One Who Believes Milton Probably Dreamed in Iambic Pentameter Meet the Man Who Out-Read His Eyeballs John Milton wasn’t born a poet—he was born a walking encyclopedia with insomnia. Imagine a student who: Read every book in sight (in Latin, Greek, Italian, Hebrew, probably Martian) Wrote essays for fun

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The Scroll-Bearer of British Verse, Who Knows Will Was Extra Before Extra Existed  The Curtain Rises on Stratford’s Favourite Overachiever Let’s get this straight: Shakespeare wasn’t just a playwright. He was the entire genre. He gave us murderous kings, cross-dressing lovers, mooning poets, ghost dads, and a fool who was