A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
A witty voyage through the ages of English literature—chronicling every scroll from the Anglo-Saxon sagas to postmodern disarray. Explore poetic pulses, dramatic turns, and satirical swings across centuries.
By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Because poetry isn’t the only thing that wore a black cloak in the 1300s) Imagine living in a time where your to-do list looked something like this: Avoid the plague Dodge the Hundred Years’ War Find a husband before 15 Learn embroidery Die Welcome to 14th-century England, where life was short, […]
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By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Who firmly believes the Wife of Bath invented the “tell-all” format before TV caught up) Welcome to “The Canterbury Tales”: Medieval England’s Original Road Trip Series Before Bigg Boss, before Keeping Up with the Kardashians, before Netflix had time to buffer, there was a bunch of medieval pilgrims on their way
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From Mead Hall to mic drops, Anglo-Saxon to Contemporary—poetry’s dramatic evolution with flair and fire. By ABS, The Literary Scholar A.K.A. The Scroll-Bearer of British Verse “Hwæt!” – And So It Begins British poetry began not with roses and romance, but with a growl—“Hwæt!”, the Old English equivalent of “Yo, listen up!”.That’s how Beowulf kicks off. Not