The Meaning of ‘So You’re the Little Woman Who Wrote the Book That Made This Great War!’

 

By Dr Oliver Tearle

‘So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!’ This quotation is one of the most famous lines associated with the American Civil War, and is up there with ‘Four score and seven years ago’ – which, coincidentally, was spoken by the same person, Abraham Lincoln. Continue reading “The Meaning of ‘So You’re the Little Woman Who Wrote the Book That Made This Great War!’”

The Meaning of John Keats’s ‘Negative Capability’

 

By Dr Oliver Tearle

‘Negative Capability’ is one of the key ideas associated with the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821). But what exactly did Keats mean by ‘Negative Capability’? Let’s take a closer look at this theory, which made its first appearance in a letter Keats wrote to his brothers. Continue reading “The Meaning of John Keats’s ‘Negative Capability’”