Johnson’s moving elegy for his friend, a charitable doctor to the poor--first published in a newspaper

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Fiction Reading

“On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin”

Hamlet, "Travestied" and “Parodied”

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A poem plagiarized by Samuel Richardson for his novel Clarissa

A poem plagiarized by Samuel Richardson for his novel Clarissa

The Grub-Street Journal and the plague of poetry

The Dark Matter of Eighteenth-Century English Poetry

“All That’s Unseen,” by Emilee Hackney, an eighth-generation Appalachian, offers a portrait both loving and cleareyed of the region that formed her.

The Department of English at Wesleyan University seeks a scholar-teacher of early modern literature for a tenure-track appointment beginning July 1, 2027. We are open to candidates with comparative ap...

Lawsuit aims to reinstate NEH grant programs, divisions, and staff. For Immediate Release / May 1, 2025 (New York, NY) — The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the American Historical Assoc...

Literature in Context

Orville Schell sees obvious and troubling parallels between the US president and Mao Zedong.

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