I'm reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and the commentary talks a little bit about differences between Old Norse and Old English epic poetry: But Old English verse does not attempt to hit you in the eye. To hit you in the eye was the deliberate intention of the Norse poe...

In T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land (which you can read online), T. S. Eliot claims that someone (probably either humankind or the reader) only knows "a heap of broken images". What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or gu...

I'm reading Digger, and there's a scene in chapter six where Mural is crying next to a tombstone that reads "No Unicorns in Heaven." What does the tombstone mean?

Are there any similar novels across the world with themes like that of "staying on" by paul scott where colonizers stayed back in the colony after that country achieved independence? Help me to find it. Many Thanks in Advance.

I wish I'd known about the topic challenge Icelandic Sagas when it happened. Likewise, I'm sure there are people that are interested in some of the current challenges. Is there any way these challenges could be advertised across the SE network?

There is no tag for English literature or Old English literature. If the former will not be added because it would fit most questions on this site, I'd propose the latter be added, as a tag limited in scope but also useful.

I think I read a brief piece about this a long time ago -- as in, over twenty years ago. (Possibly in some sort of literary reference book.) As near as I can recall, the following sequence of events is supposed to have occurred in the real world, probably in the decade of the 1920s. Some time a...