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Arts & Literature
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.
I am going to be writing an essay about two poets of the Victorian era.. My topic is repressed sexuality in the poems that can be unlocked and brought to the surface by close reading and...
At primary school I read a story in which some old wellies or boots of some kind were left out in a garden and ended up with nasturtiums growing in them. Can anyone please help me with a title?...
I have just read the (minor celebrity ) biography of Fran Cosgrave and was really interested , i couldn't put the book down . Can anyone recommend any good ones. Preferably the ones where it is told...
hi when is the next book due out?
...on the tv advert for emmerdale with the tag line "it's anything but quiet in the country" featuring all the cast members, can anyone please tell me which famous painting and by which artist the ad...
I have decided to start reading poetry...anyone have any suggestions????
I have noticed in some of my British novels the use of single 'quotation marks' to denote speaking by a character in the story. In the states we always use double "quotation marks"....
It's a cheesy poem which is basically an ode to being a mother rather than a housewife. It has lines in it about the toys all over the floor/ sticky fingerprints etc etc but not caring because she'd...
Has anyone read any of her books, and what did they think? She's been hyped and has won prizes, and I quite fancy them, but they're so long, and I don't want to do my usual trick of shelling out for a...
Hey i wonder if anyone could help me...i had this book of Adrian Mole Diaries when I was younger and in this book you had to make choices as to what adrian did and to make choices it would tell you to...
I'm looking for a poem for my 11 year old son and 13 year old daughter to read at my 18 month old baby daughters thanksgiving service - Any ideas? I quite like the idea of something funny but with...
It is called feel the fear and do it anyway by susan jefferys I am hoping it will help motivate me! though i do know that i am the one who has to do the kicking me into shape in the end!
Has anyone read it yet?
I've seen a copy of a black and white print with a President (Kennedy I think) leaning over the desk. The view is from the rear and it's taken in the oval office. Can anyway point me in the right...
I bought a framed picture of a snow leopard in the 1960s,it is signed by silvia duran, does anyone know anything about the artist?
Hi, I am currently working in a team that contain the most dull, boring and biggest two faced bitches i've ever worked with. Today is my last day and i really want to write them a snotty (yet witty)...
i remember reading a book as a child featuring monsters who used bomiknockers, anyonehave any clue what thebook was called?
Back in the eighties I read a book set in the 19th century about two Irish brothers who kidnapped the 16 year old daughter of an English man responsible for the attrocities of the English army (Black...
I saw a very insightful programme probably a few months ago which followed Dr Seracini as he discovered some amazing things about some of Da Vincis' paintings. I was intreagued when he was looking...
whats the difference between memoirs and an autobiography?