A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Who’s fairly certain Orwell is haunting our routers in silent judgment) In the grand year of 1948, a man named George Orwell sat down to write a book not because he was paranoid, but because the world wasn’t paranoid enough. He switched the last two digits of the year and gifted […]
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
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