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London (William Blake Poem). AI-Generated.
Exploring the dark streets and human suffering in Blake’s prophetic vision of the city William Blake’s poem “London”, first published in his 1794 collection Songs of Experience, remains one of the most striking and incisive portrayals of urban life during the late 18th century. With its haunting imagery and rhythmic precision, the poem captures both the physical environment of London and the social and moral malaise that Blake perceived in the city. Though brief in length, London offers a powerful critique of social injustice, political oppression, and the human cost of industrial and moral decay.
By Salaar Jamali5 days ago in BookClub
There Is Only One True Unreliable Narrator...
The unreliable narrator: A new trend in the literary fiction world, usually also falling under the category of unlikeable narrator and plotless fiction. I think, in many ways, the tiktok-afication of this term has pulled it away from what it actually means and is often used as a synonym for an unlikeable narrator.
By The Austen Shelf10 days ago in BookClub
My New Book is Finally Here. Top Story - January 2026.
My poetry collection Beautiful and Brutal Things is done. It's actually done and finally published over 270 pages. Over a year of my life went into this book. More than a year, really. Long days at my computer, sometimes seven days a week because I couldn't stop even when I probably should have. Then two months of editing that felt harder than the writing itself. But it's finished, and I'm still standing, and the book is real.
By Tim Carmichael16 days ago in BookClub
Quotes From Sense & Sensibility
Over the summer I reread Sense & Sensibility for the first time. It was the first Jane Austen book that I read many a years ago, before I ever had this blog or any notion of doing something like this. As usual, I collected some of my favourite quotes from the book to share with you.
By The Austen Shelfabout a month ago in BookClub
