Ivan Besancon

T.S. Eliot was greatly influenced by many different writers, whose ideas are partly found, in his poem "The love song of J. Alfred Pruf...

Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" is one of his most famous poems; it is also for me one of most challenging one to fully grasp....

War poets were really enjoyable to read. I was impressed by how much intensity they could convey through a few lines. I noticed that they te...

Channel Firing by Thomas Hardy was written in the time frame when the English army was exercising at sea at the dawn of World War I. First p...

Oscar Wilde was more famous (to me) for his oeuvre “Le portrait de Dorian Gray,” but, even though it was extremely short, “Impression du Mat...

Hopkins was extremely hard to understand for me. That is weird since he is a “modern” writer or should I say a “late Victorian/early modern”...

The poem “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning is based on the concept of power and possession. It tells the story of passionate lovers. Th...