A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
When monarchs inspired poets, and poetry crowned a queen — the birth of England’s literary Golden Age. From The Professor’s Desk “Before the theatre gave voice to the common man, poetry gave shape to the crown.” “An age of ink and intrigue, of verses whispered in velvet halls and sung beneath the weight of a […]
England’s Golden Age and Gathering Shadows :Part 1 : The Poetic Court Read More »
How Printing, Painting, Planets, and Poets Pulled Us Out of the Past From The Professor’s Desk To understand the Renaissance is to understand your own urge to question, explore, and create. No age is ever truly “modern” without first passing through its own Renaissance. ABS, The Literary Professor “The first light of a new dawn
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The Turbulent Close of the Middle Ages: War, Plague, Dissent, and Change From The Professor’s Desk As the Middle English period neared its close, England stood on the threshold of profound transformation. The final centuries of the Middle Ages were marked by a convergence of historical forces that reshaped the nation’s political, social, and cultural
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Poetic Visions, Religious Voices, and The Drama of the Middle English Mind From The Professor’s Desk Beyond Chaucer’s towering influence, the later Middle English period witnessed an extraordinary flowering of literary voices — each contributing in distinctive ways to the evolution of English thought and expression. This was an age when knightly ideals, moral allegory,
Middle English Period 1066-1400 AD Part 2 Geoffrey Chaucer and the Flowering of Middle English Literature From The Professor’s Desk In any history of English literature, certain figures stand as defining voices of their age — and in the Middle English period, none looms larger than Geoffrey Chaucer. Born in the early 1340s, Chaucer lived
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From The Professor’s Desk Introduction to the Middle English Period (1066–1480) The Middle English period marks one of the most profound transitions in the history of the English language and its literature. The year 1066 stands as a watershed — the Norman Conquest led by William of Normandy altered the linguistic, political, and cultural landscape
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A Poem Where Nature Rebels, the Streets Get Philosophical, and Resilience Grows Between the Cracks ABS Believes:Some flowers bloom because they’re nurtured. Others bloom because they weren’t supposed to.Concrete doesn’t scare a rose that knows what it’s worth. Tupac: The Poet Behind the Persona Before he was a rapper, icon, or revolution with a gold
A Poem Where Death Pauses, Patriarchy Panics, and a Woman on a Rope Redefines Power ABS Believes:Some poems aren’t written—they’re whispered by the nearly dead.And sometimes survival is the loudest poem of all. Atwood: Chronicler of Wrath in Whispered Monologues Margaret Atwood doesn’t write women. She summons them. Half-Hanged Mary is one such conjuring—a poem
A Poem Where Silence Talks Louder, Meaning Retires, and the Lines Try Not to Mean… Anything ABS Believes:Some poems don’t want to be understood. They want to stand in the corner looking timeless and mysterious.Poetry isn’t supposed to explain. It’s supposed to haunt. MacLeish: The Poet Who Gagged the Poem and Called It Art Archibald
A Poem Where Time Gets Cancelled, Science Gets Flirted With, and the Sun Is Just a Nosy Boomer ABS Believes:Some mornings, love doesn’t rise with the sun—it tells it to shut the blinds.Donne didn’t just defy nature—he metaphorically slapped it with a silk bedsheet. Donne: The Metaphysical Flirt Who Made Suns Nervous John Donne was