Political Poems: 'The Masque of Anarchy' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Who's afraid of realism? 'Notes from Underground' by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky’s 1864 novella doesn’t contain the descriptive detail, impersonal narration or many other features of 19th-century realism established by Flaubert. The book’s two-part structure, which starts with a 40-year-old’s furious rant against rationalism and moves on to present ...  Show more

London Revisited: Mosaics, Archers and a Walled Garden

After Roman London was hit by a catastrophic fire in about 125 AD, perhaps the result of another local revolt, it entered a new period of sophistication which saw the emergence of elaborate townhouses for its mercantile and administrative elite, richly embellished with mosaics an ...  Show more

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