Paradise Lost by John Milton
In this story none of the characters comes out well, and there isn’t a happy ending.
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Not having done any Chaucer at school, reading The Canterbury Tales is one of those things I promised myself I would find time for and am pleased to have done at last! Although some parts are rather tedious six centuries … Continue reading →
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney (trans.)
Having scoffed at David Whyte’s references to this Anglo-Saxon poem, I thought I’d better read it. Strong shades of Tolkien, which is not surprising, as he wrote possibly the most influential critique of the work in the 20th century.
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