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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Essays Ayi Kwei Armah Daniele Nunziata
Essays E.E. Cummings Alison Rosenblitt
Essays King Alfred the Great Francis Leneghan
Essays Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Daniele Nunziata
Essays Chinua Achebe Daniele Nunziata
Essays Hand Signals from Beyond Julian Thompson
Essays How Short Can a Short Poem Be? Julian Thompson
Essays ‘Not Like Normal People’: Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa and Sally Rooney’s Normal People Julian Thompson
Essays This Old Man, That Old Man: Wordsworth Revises Wordsworth Julian Thompson
Essays Outdoor Gothic Julian Thompson
Essays The Chimes: Dickens’s New Year Carol Julian Thompson
Essays This is a place one can go mad in – Ivor Gurney, Asylum Poet Kate Kennedy https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/
Essays Is there any truth in biographical fictions? Katherine Collins https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/
Essays Sarah Howe - Artefacts of Writing Peter D McDonald https://artefactsofwriting.com/sarah-howe/
Essays Kirsty Gunn - Artefacts of Writing Peter D McDonald https://artefactsofwriting.com/kirsty-gunn/
Essays Tracy K. Smith - Artefacts of Writing Peter D McDonald https://artefactsofwriting.com/tracy-k-smith/
Essays Reading between life and work: Reflections on J.M. Coetzee’s life-writing Elleke Boehmer
Essays Celebrating women's writing: the pen in their hands Ros Ballaster
Essays Exhibiting Maria Edgeworth and Her Fellow Literary Lions Ros Ballaster, Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull
Essays Brighton Ambitious: Some Fragments Ellen B. Brewster, Ros Ballaster
Essays Maria Edgeworth - A biographical note. Ros Ballaster
Essays Victorian Gothic: An Introduction Julian Thompson
Essays Literature and Victorian Religion Julian Thompson
Essays An Introduction to Beowulf Daniel Thomas
Essays An Introduction to Teaching Wilfred Owen Lucy Freeland
Essays Wilfred Owen: Resonances Brigitte Friant-Kessler
Essays Owen's influence on Carol Ann Duffy Marcy Tanter
Essays "The Poetry is in the Pity": Wilfred Owen and the Memory of the First World War Vincent Trott
Essays 4-11 November 1918: Wilfred Owen and armistice Day in Memory and History Alex Nordlund
Essays Wilfred Owen: The '60s Poet Harry Ricketts
Essays Dulce et Decorum Est: Wilfred Owen’s Latin Elizabeth Vandiver
Essays Wilfred Owen and the Culture of Commemoration Eva Zettelmann
Essays At the Water’s Edge: Wilfred Owen and Water Gerald Dawe
Essays Postcard from the Front Lines of Teaching "Dulce et Decorum Est" Eleanor Mary Boudreau
Essays SHEER: Setting Wilfred Owen to Music Tim Watts
Essays "Smile, Smile, Smile": Wilfred Owen and the Politicians Douglas Kerr
Essays Wilfred Owen and the Modern Elegy Emma Suret
Essays Reliving Wilfred Owen's 'Exposure' in Louis Simpson's World War II Poem 'The Battle' Michael Sarnowski
Essays Fakiry: The Oriental Tale Ros Ballaster
Essays Tour: Women's Writing Alex Pryce
Essays Tour: History of our Literature Alex Pryce
Essays Emily Dickinson: Writing it 'Slant' Erin Nyborg
Essays Miscellanies & 18th century print culture https://digitalmiscellaniesindex.org
Essays Ezra Pound Rebecca Beasley
Essays Wilfred Owen - biography Stuart Lee, Stephanie Fishwick https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/owen
Essays The Curious Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald Kate O'Connor
Essays Edward Thomas - biography Katharine Lindsay https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/thomas
Essays Isaac Rosenberg - biography Alisa Miller, Vivien Noakes https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/rosenberg
Essays Ivor Guerney - biography Stuart Lee https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/gurney
Essays Colonial Writers - Introduction Dominic Davies