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Welcome To Arts & Literature where we try to answer questions of a scholarly nature.If you are looking for information about books then head to Books & Authors. The Arts section covers all sorts of topics like theatre, exhibitions, paintings and much more.
Big fan of Peter James, I've read all of his Grace books and thoroughly enjoyed every one. I can't believe this book was written by the same author. I perservered and finished it but was tempted... ...
I have been asked to look at selling a collection of books that were in a library that has been closed for over seventy years. They were recently found in the attic - put there when the building... ...
Myfanwy Kind o’er the kinderbank leans my Myfanwy,
White o’er the playpen the sheen of her dress,
Fresh from the bathroom and soft in the nursery
Soap scented fingers I long to caress.
Were you a... ...
White o’er the playpen the sheen of her dress,
Fresh from the bathroom and soft in the nursery
Soap scented fingers I long to caress.
Were you a... ...
Hello, Does anybody recognise these opening words and which poem they come from : "Short was their little race below" Thanks
Apparently today is National Poetry Day. I'm not massively into poetry but have loved "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noye since I was a child. I won't post it here because it does go one quite a... ...
Hi, Have an Edgar Hunt animal framed oil. Original. Looking for a gallery that buys that style of painting. Anyone know of one please preferably East Midlands. Don't say auction - 25% fee is a... ...
There's a famous 19th Century painting of the scene. Who would have commissioned it, and why? It's hardly something you'd want hanging on the sitting room wall.
pro creates newer fresh atmosphere better for our eyes con burden of cost ofc lies with broke Students destroys school heritage,history facility unable to be used during renovation raises doubts of... ...
Words by Goethe, music by Musorgsky & sung by Kharatinov at the height of his power. What more do you want? 😃 https:/
This question was prompted by someone asking for book recommendations. I have a friend who's an avid reader but has never read the Brontes, Dickens, Jane Austen, etc, and sticks solely to current... ...
I love you more in your feverish state, when I soothe your burning face with a cool moist cloth and kiss your eyelids which hide your delirious dreams from this world. I adore your muttering dry... ...
This last 2 years I seem to have branched-out into poetry. I have never thought of myself as a poet, so already have 'impostor syndrome'. A few months ago, someone 'recommended' me to the High... ...
I was leant a book ( in hospital) it was a murder mystery set in an historical English village where a female auctioneer and her divorced husband helped the local bluff policeman solve the... ...
Can anyone tell me the title of the first Rebus book set after he retires please?
How does Banksy manage to not get seen by someone when he is doing those fabulous paintings?
We were read a book in either last year of middle school or 1st year of High school....so late 80s early 90s. All I remember is a boy being angry at his dad because he had befriended/given a job to... ...
..............a group of people or just one person? I ask this because the paintings that are attributed to him seem too involved to be by just one person. The size of them being done overnight,... ...
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Right, my Writing Group have set a challenging task for a short story this week - the Norton-Disney Do-decahedron, specifically re. who made it, who used it and how? Short, fiction story required... ...
I need it quite urgently for an equipollence abroad. Grateful for any assistance on this.
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