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Jean Paul Sartre’s view of Hell

27 May 2019

On this day in 1944 Jean Paul Sartre’s Existentialist play Huis Clos (‘Dead End’) was first performed in Paris. It was a tense time already in France – the Normandy invasion was only ten days... Read More

A E Housman, a gay Shropshire lad

26 May 2019

On this day in 1859 the English poet Alfred Edward (A. E.) Housman was born. He is best remembered today for his lyrical and evocative poetry especially that set in Shropshire where he grew up.... Read More

Ralph Waldo Emerson and the ‘shot heard round the world’

25 May 2019

On this day in 1803 American writer and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson was born. Known today as a leader of the Romantic Movement, he wrote the well-known Concord Hymn that features on the Concord monument... Read More

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