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13 items with this tag.
Jul 24, 2026
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
graph/work
concept/desire
motif/sea_and_voyage
author/belloc
form/translation
form/medieval_romance
concept/romantic_love
concept/death_and_love
concept/fate_and_free_will
concept/marriage_and_fidelity
concept/honour
concept/courage
motif/sea
motif/ship
motif/love
motif/poison
motif/swords_and_weapons
motif/enchanted_wood
histref/arthurian_legend
setting/ireland
setting/sea_2
setting/castle
archetype/lover
archetype/tragic_hero
topos/love_death_liebestod
topos/unattainable_beloved
Jul 24, 2026
THE PANG MORE SHARP THAN ALL: AN ALLEGORY
graph/work
author/coleridge
form/allegory
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/imagination
concept/disillusionment
motif/the_mirror
histref/arthurian_legend
archetype/child
motif/flowers
Jul 24, 2026
The Old Road: from Canterbury to Winchester
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/history
author/belloc
form/travel_writing
form/history
form/essay
concept/tradition
concept/nostalgia
concept/nature
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/memory_and_time
motif/road
motif/journey
motif/fire
motif/hill
histref/medieval_england
histref/arthurian_legend
setting/rural_england
setting/medieval_england_2
character/king_arthur
archetype/pilgrim
topos/open_road_homecoming
topos/book_of_nature
Jul 24, 2026
The Glass Walking Stick
graph/work
setting/europe
form/nonfiction
concept/history
author/chesterton
form/essay
form/literary_criticism
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/nostalgia
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
concept/satire_of_society
concept/the_artist_and_society
concept/kingship_and_legitimacy
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
motif/ruins
motif/memory
histref/medieval_england
histref/arthurian_legend
histref/christianity
character/king_arthur
character/napoleon
character/robert_bruce
character/general_wolfe
character/cyrano_de_bergerac
character/chantecler
character/st_george
character/tom_jones
character/philip_the_second
character/george_iv
character/edward_vii
character/george_v
concept/heroism
concept/war_and_its_cost
motif/lion
setting/cathedral
setting/spain
setting/toledo
setting/the_escorial
setting/camelot
archetype/king
archetype/hero
form/heroic_couplet
histref/regency_georgian_england
histref/napoleonic_wars_the_navy
histref/victorian_england
Jul 24, 2026
The Spice of Life
graph/work
motif/sea_and_voyage
setting/europe
form/nonfiction
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
form/essay
form/literary_criticism
concept/the_artist_and_society
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
concept/joy
form/detective_fiction
concept/faith
concept/imagination
character/macbeth
character/lady_macbeth
character/king_lear
character/goneril
character/regan
character/falstaff
character/jane_eyre
character/mr_rochester
character/paul_emanuel
character/caliban
character/odysseus_ulysses
character/wilkins_micawber
character/dick_swiveller
character/seth_pecksniff
character/sam_weller
character/daniel_quilp
character/ralph_nickleby
character/little_nell
character/wackford_squeers
character/augustus_snodgrass
character/alice
character/scheherezade
character/sherlock_holmes
concept/ratiocination_detection
concept/kingship_and_legitimacy
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/madness
concept/ambition
concept/fate_and_free_will
concept/temptation
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/marriage_and_fidelity
concept/nostalgia
concept/faith_and_doubt
concept/original_sin
concept/paganism_and_classical_revival
concept/distributism
concept/education
concept/grotesque
concept/critique_of_progress
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
topos/world_upside_down
topos/theatrum_mundi
topos/carpe_diem
topos/golden_age
topos/life_as_a_battle
topos/beatus_ille_happy_the_man_rural_retreat
motif/cave
motif/storm
motif/mirror
motif/ghosts
motif/light_and_dark
motif/crown
motif/dreams
motif/ship
motif/wine_and_drink
setting/london
setting/paris
setting/italy
setting/egypt
setting/cathedral
setting/medieval_england_2
setting/orient
setting/rural_england
setting/holy_land_jerusalem_and_bethlehem
archetype/detective
archetype/fool
archetype/usurper
archetype/king
archetype/trickster
archetype/madwoman
archetype/child
form/fable
form/fairy_tale_fantasy
form/melodrama
form/travel_writing
form/biography
form/satire
histref/renaissance
histref/french_revolution
histref/crusades
histref/spanish_inquisition
histref/reformation
histref/thirty_years_war
histref/arthurian_legend
histref/islam
histref/puritanism
histref/roman_history
histref/ancient_rome
histref/elizabethan_england
histref/bible
histref/dante
histref/greek_mythology
histref/medieval_england
histref/chaucer
histref/voltaire
histref/the_age_of_reason_eighteenth_century_rationalism
Jul 24, 2026
Song of the Exposition
graph/work
author/whitman
form/free_verse
concept/labor
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
histref/the_industrial_revolution
concept/the_artist_and_society
concept/war_and_its_cost
histref/arthurian_legend
topos/poet_as_prophet
Jul 24, 2026
Old Chants
graph/work
concept/history
author/whitman
concept/the_artist_and_society
histref/classical_antiquity
histref/the_bible
histref/greek_mythology
histref/arthurian_legend
histref/dante
motif/music_and_song
setting/america
form/free_verse
Jul 24, 2026
Tales of the Long Bow
graph/work
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
form/short_story
form/satire
form/allegory
topos/world_upside_down
concept/distributism
concept/anti_industrialism
concept/satire_of_society
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/joy
concept/paradox
setting/rural_england
character/colonel_crane
character/owen_hood
character/hilary_pierce
character/wilding_white
character/enoch_oates
character/bellew_blair
character/audrey_smith
character/elizabeth_seymour
character/joan_hardy
character/sir_horace_hunter
character/lord_normantowers
character/earl_of_eden
concept/class_conflict
concept/romantic_love
concept/truth
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/common_man
concept/power_and_corruption
topos/pastoral_retreat
topos/quest
motif/animals
motif/letters_and_writing
motif/river
motif/garden
motif/inn_tavern
motif/fire
setting/river_thames
setting/inn
setting/london
setting/underworld_cave
setting/garden_2
archetype/trickster
archetype/rebel
archetype/self_made_man
form/fairy_tale_fantasy
form/mock_epic
histref/first_world_war
histref/arthurian_legend
histref/industrial_revolution
Jul 24, 2026
A Short History of England
graph/work
setting/europe
form/nonfiction
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/the_common_man
concept/distributism
concept/anti_industrialism
concept/class_conflict
concept/social_injustice
concept/kingship_and_legitimacy
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/heroism
topos/the_ages_of_the_world
topos/golden_age
topos/fortunes_wheel
motif/crown
motif/swords_weapons
motif/money_gold
form/essay
histref/medieval_england
histref/the_crusades
histref/the_reformation
histref/the_industrial_revolution
histref/christianity
histref/catholic_church
histref/wars_of_the_roses
histref/ancient_rome
setting/medieval_england
character/king_arthur
character/king_alfred_2
character/thomas_becket
character/sir_thomas_more
character/henry_v
character/henry_vi
character/henry_viii
character/richard_ii
character/richard_iii
character/king_john
character/julius_caesar
character/cardinal_wolsey
character/henry_bolingbroke
character/edward_iii
character/william_the_conqueror
character/henry_ii
character/edward_i
character/charles_i
character/oliver_cromwell
character/napoleon
character/joan_of_arc
character/wat_tyler
character/nelson
character/wellington
character/simon_de_montfort
character/bolingbroke_henry_st_john
concept/democracy
concept/freedom_and_liberty
concept/slavery
concept/greed_and_money
concept/labor_and_work
topos/war_as_glory
motif/ruins_the_abbey
setting/rural_england
setting/scotland_the_highlands
setting/germany
setting/london
archetype/king
archetype/tyrant
archetype/usurper
archetype/martyr_saint
archetype/common_man_2
histref/french_revolution
histref/renaissance
histref/puritanism
histref/elizabethan_england
histref/napoleonic_wars_the_navy
histref/first_world_war
histref/islam
histref/grail_legend
histref/arthurian_legend
histref/danish_invasions
histref/battle_of_ethandun
histref/regency_georgian_england
histref/irish_question
histref/thirty_years_war
Jul 24, 2026
Fancies versus Fads
graph/work
setting/europe
form/nonfiction
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
form/essay
form/satire
form/literary_criticism
concept/paradox
concept/satire_of_society
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/the_artist_and_society
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
concept/anti_industrialism
character/hamlet
character/portia
character/shylock
character/macbeth
character/lady_macbeth
character/banquo
character/claudius
character/falstaff
character/sam_weller
character/tony_weller
character/samuel_pickwick
character/artful_dodger
character/dorian_gray
character/rosalind
character/viola
character/king_arthur
character/gulliver
character/joan_of_arc
concept/equality_in_death
concept/democracy
concept/freedom_and_liberty
concept/crime_and_punishment
concept/slavery
concept/distributism
concept/marriage_and_fidelity
concept/education
concept/class_conflict
topos/world_upside_down
topos/poet_as_prophet
topos/theatrum_mundi
topos/golden_age
motif/food_and_feasting
motif/clothing_and_costume
motif/swords_and_weapons
motif/imprisonment_2
motif/ghosts
motif/wheel
setting/london
setting/medieval_england_2
setting/america
setting/new_england_america
setting/venice
setting/denmark
setting/ancient_rome_2
archetype/rebel
archetype/tyrant
archetype/martyr_saint
form/aphorism
histref/puritanism
histref/new_england
histref/arthurian_legend
histref/milton
histref/jonathan_swift
Jul 24, 2026
The Return of Don Quixote
graph/work
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
topos/the_quest
archetype/quest_hero
archetype/fool
character/don_quixote
concept/madness
concept/appearance_vs_reality
concept/distributism
concept/nostalgia
concept/satire_of_society
concept/conversion
concept/love_romantic
histref/medieval_england
histref/catholic_church
motif/masks_disguise
form/novel
form/satire
character/michael_herne
character/john_braintree
character/douglas_murrel
character/olive_ashley
character/rosamund_severne
character/julian_archer
character/lord_seawood
character/lord_eden
concept/class_conflict
concept/kingship_and_legitimacy
concept/labor_and_work
concept/identity
concept/democracy
topos/world_upside_down
topos/open_road_homecoming
motif/clothing_and_costume
motif/ruins_the_abbey
motif/lion
setting/industrial_city
setting/rural_england
archetype/king
archetype/rebel
form/parable
histref/arthurian_legend
histref/crusades
histref/french_revolution
histref/industrial_revolution
Jul 24, 2026
BalladStBarbara
graph/work
setting/europe
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
form/ballad
form/lyric
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/martyrdom
concept/faith
concept/nostalgia
concept/distributism
concept/social_injustice
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
topos/ubi_sunt
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
topos/the_last_stand
motif/ruins
motif/the_grave
motif/swords_weapons
histref/the_first_world_war
histref/the_crusades
histref/christianity
character/christ
character/herod_antipas
character/lazarus_the_risen_man
character/king_arthur
character/barbara
concept/conversion
concept/satire_of_society
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/freedom_and_liberty
concept/marriage_and_fidelity
concept/self_sacrifice
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/greed_and_money
topos/memento_mori
topos/world_upside_down
topos/quest
motif/window
motif/bells
motif/stone_and_marble
motif/money_and_gold
motif/horse
motif/eyes_and_sight
motif/fire
motif/dragon
setting/london
setting/paris
setting/desert
setting/medieval_england_2
archetype/martyr_saint
archetype/tyrant
form/sonnet
form/elegy
form/satire
histref/arthurian_legend
histref/french_revolution
histref/industrial_revolution
histref/british_empire
Jul 24, 2026
The Myth of Arthur
graph/work
author/chesterton
form/sonnet
concept/truth
concept/imagination
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/nostalgia
histref/arthurian_legend
character/king_arthur
archetype/king
motif/swords_weapons
concept/faith_and_doubt
concept/kingship_and_legitimacy
concept/ratiocination_detection
topos/ubi_sunt
topos/immortality_through_verse
motif/crown
motif/flags_and_banners
setting/medieval_england_2