The Russian and Soviet writer Maxim Gorky was a founder of the Socialist realism literary method and a political activist, who used his novels to illustrate the
The Roman playwright Plautus wrote comedies that are the earliest Latin literary texts to have survived in their entirety. Loosely adapted from lost Greek plays
Juvenal’s ‘Satires’ are a vital source for the study of Latin literature, offering a lurid, comic and fascinating window into the world of ancient Rome. D
Best known for the poems ‘The Bridge of Sighs’ and ‘The Song of the Shirt’, the English poet Thomas Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, the At
Gerard Manley Hopkins' experimental use of prosody and imagery has earned him the posthumous fame of being a daring innovator in a period dominated by tradition
