It is not known how “A Visit from St. Nicholas” came to be published in The Troy Sentinel in December of 1823.
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Welcome back to the 2025 year of The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. In 2024, we completed three “semesters,”...
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It's always dramatic when you leave London for a spell in the English countryside. In the English countryside, people still say hello.
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Aleteia contributor Joseph Pearce shares his experience seeing his play 'Death Comes for the War Poets' brought to life onstage.
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An organisation dedicated to one of the most famous English poets of the 19th century has been given a grant of £230,280 to rescue a memorial statue.
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