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Category: Classics

  • “Board the Troika of the Past”: Alexander Voloshin Rings in the New Year

    Dec 30, 2025
  • Birth of William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) – The Statesman Who Gave English Prose Its Victorian Gravity

    Dec 29, 2025
  • Charles Darwin Departs on the HMS Beagle – The Journey That Remade English Nonfiction

    Dec 27, 2025
  • Birth of Henry Miller (1891–1980) – The Writer Who Forced English Prose to Break Its Restraints

    Dec 26, 2025
  • Another George Seferis Poem

    Dec 25, 2025
  • Birth of Saki (H. H. Munro) (1870–1916) – The Writer Who Perfected the Lethal Sentence in English

    Dec 18, 2025
  • Birth of Jane Austen (1775–1817) – The Mind That Taught English Fiction How to Think

    Dec 16, 2025
  • Birth of Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) – The European Lyric Who Recast English Romantic Irony

    Dec 13, 2025
  • Birth of Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) – The Private Genius Who Rewrote English Poetry

    Dec 10, 2025
  • Birth of Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) – The Lyricist Who Gave Modern English Its Songbook Wit and Rhythm

    Dec 6, 2025
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