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The Romantics were a group of poets that were a part of the Romantic movement that marked a profound shift in sensibilities from the age of reason approach of Classicism. Looseness of form, nature, mortal...

Like many of his contemporaries, Shakespeare used darkness figuratively to represent evil. In the Jacobean era, morality plays were popular and the symbolism of 'light' as good and 'darkness' as evil was ...

In 'Romeo and Juliet' Lord Capulet, Juliet's father, is presented as a good father in many ways throughout the play and particularly in this extract. He tells Paris he can only marry Juliet if she says ye...

A key thing to remember when writing an English essay is that you need to back up every point you make. This doesn't have to be a hard-and-fast rule but try and think of the structure: Point-->Evidence...

Siegfried Sassoon, a contemporary of Wilfred Owen, was one of his associates whilst Owen recovered in Craiglockhart, and is often seen as a figure of worship to Owen, and perhaps even an object of his aff...