Andrew Shields

"Strange, bewildered, and confused": The shock of industrialization in Charles Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop"

Brecht's "To Those Born Later" as a plea against "presentism"

The "small back room" and "inspired notes" of poetry: Ciaran Carson, Wayne Miller, Tomas Transtrømer

Defamiliarization and sarcastic humor in Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop"

Most famous for roles they didn't like: Christopher Plummer and Alec Guinness

"Bear alone the weary strife": Charlotte Brontë and the loss of her siblings to tuberculosis