Monthly Archives: May 2014

In modern language the term Luddites is unmistakeably pejorative, but it was not always so. Luddites’ struggle was a complex issue with very modern implications, and, as it often happens, a celebrity supporter in the figure of Lord Byron, who … Continue reading →

One of the more famous poetry anthologies in English language opens up with a 1250 Middle English song: Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweþ sed and bloweþ med And springþ þe wde nu, Sing cuccu! Awe bleteþ after … Continue reading →

Percy Bysshe Shelley – Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And … Continue reading →