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Thoughts on Shakespeare

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue …

Thoughts about literature

Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before …

William Shakespeare’s Reputation

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity; of Spenser, remoteness; of Milton, elevation; of Shakespeare, every thing. William Hazlitt If we …

Short glossary of literary terms

Acrostic: a verse or arrangement of words in which certain letters in each line, such as the first or last, …