Prose and Poetry – Between The Purple Passages

Views From Sixteen: The Books That Impacted Me The Most Between Sixteen and Eighteen

This is a list of some of the books that have had the biggest impact on my thinking or were earth-shattering for me in some way. Coincidentally, these are all books I read at sixteen or seventeen while studying for my A-Levels (not my A-Level texts themselves) so maybe there’s… Continue reading

Prose and Poetry

bell hooks, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Orwell, Gillian Flynn, Graeme Macrae Burnet, J.R.R Tolkien, Kathryn Stockett, Khaled Hosseini, Maya Angelou, Octavia Butler, Vladimir Nabokov
Translation as Metamorphosis in Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower’s Versions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

The primary meaning of the verb translate is ‘To convert or render (a word, a work, an author, a language, etc.) into another language’. Thus, a translation is often understood as a (usually completed) work resembling that from which it is translated, often with the only difference between source and… Continue reading

Past Essays, Prose and Poetry

Classical Literature, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Medieval Literature, Mythology, Ovid, Translation
Atonement Revisited: On Writing and ‘The Briony Question’

I can’t technically join the masses in saying Atonement is Ian McEwan’s masterpiece, being the only novel of his that I’ve read. But I happily join them in singing its praises as a masterful piece of literature. McEwan’s prose is spellbindingly beautiful and the novel is rich with the metaphors… Continue reading

Prose and Poetry

Atonement, Briony Tallis, Imagination, Writing

Views From Sixteen: The Books That Impacted Me The Most Between Sixteen and Eighteen

Translation as Metamorphosis in Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower’s Versions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Atonement Revisited: On Writing and ‘The Briony Question’