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Quote of the Day by Legendary English writer Percy Bysshe Shelley: “The more we study, the more we discover… — Inspiring lessons on learning, education, curiosity, and why wisdom starts where certainty ends

Percy Bysshe Shelley inspiring quote explores the importance of intellectual humility and lifelong learning. The saying suggests that true education does not simply increase knowledge, but also expands awareness of how much remains unknown, encouraging curiosity, reflection, and continuous personal growth. It reminds us that learning is a never-ending process…

The Economic Times

Ten compelling poems about climate change – chosen by our experts

We asked ten literary experts to recommend the climate poem that has spoken to them most powerfully. Their answers span over 200 years and a range of emotions from sorrow, to anger, fear and hope.

The Conversation

Life of Pi author Yann Martel: ‘I thought the Iliad was a book for old farts… then I started getting ideas’

The Life of Pi author Yann Martel explains why his new retelling of Homer’s Iliad offers the ideal antidote to the age of Trump

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Mary Shelley is often underestimated on screen – does The Bride! finally get her right?

Ostensibly, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film, The Bride! offers a reimagining of the 1936 film The Bride of Frankenstein, in which the bride appears only briefly and does not say a single word.

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‘The Donald Trump of ancient Egypt’: Ramses II’s ego is on full display in new exhibition

An exhibition of 3,000-year-old artefacts at Battersea power station gives Egypt’s most ambitious, self-aggrandising pharaoh a chance to emerge from Tutankhamun’s shadow

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Warmers and Shelley to get through winter

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How Guillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi made the horror movie of the year

IN FOCUS: The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘The Shape of Water’ spent decades attempting to bring Mary Shelley’s masterpiece to the screen. As it arrives on Netflix, he, as well as his stars Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, speak to Clarisse Loughrey about its long gestation, its surprise easter eggs, and…

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Waiting for Godot has been translated into Afrikaans: what took so long

At last, the most infamous latecomer in all of literature has arrived – not in the flesh, but in South Africa’s Afrikaans language. Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s best-known drama, Waiting for Godot, now also lives as Ons Wag vir Godot.

The Conversation

It’s time for Steve Borthwick to deliver and this England decision will decide Six Nations fate

SIX NATIONS 2025: A trip to the champions in Dublin to begin a pivotal Six Nations campaign, Harry Latham-Coyle examines how Steve Borthwick hopes to spark a reaction against Ireland following a dismal 2024

The Independent UK

Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals

New collection of author’s diary entries provides tragic insight

The Guardian - UK

Live, love and laugh at the bad bits of life

Brief letters: The Triumph of Life | Big head | Too much Trump? | Spellchecking Badenoch | Johnson’s fiction

The Guardian - UK

The 3,300-year-old ancient Egyptian statue of Ramesses II said to have inspired Percy Shelley's 'Ozymandias'

This statue of an Egyptian pharaoh is said to have inspired the English poet Shelley to write his famous poem "Ozymandias."

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How do you read a poem? Embrace the sound, the strangeness and the ambiguity

A word is dead When it is said, Some say, I say it just Begins to live That day. – Emily Dickinson If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling was the light of setting…

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“Life is to be lived, and lived well… there’s a feeling of carpe diem across the whole album”: Big Big Train loaded Grand Tour with intergalactic ambitions

Inspired by journeys across 250 million years, Gregory Spawton and the late David Longdon intended the band’s 12th album to be bigger in scale than anything they’d done before

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'Misnamed' Human Rights Act should be 'Criminal Rights Act', Suella Braverman claims

THE Human Rights Act was “misnamed” and could instead have been called the “Criminal Rights Act”, the Home Secretary has said ...

The Guardian - UK

Twice in a lifetime: would you dare meet your doppelgänger?

Eva Wiseman on the enduring fascination of discovering a lookalike – and also the darker side of seeing double

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What were the Jeopardy! Masters Final Jeopardy questions on May 8?

Missed Jeopardy! Masters? We've got the Final Jeopardy questions from the May 8 episode of the trivia tournament.

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Michael Hiltzik: While workers struggled during the pandemic, CEO pay went up, up, up

If the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and the lyricists Gus Kahn and Raymond B. Egan could come back from the grave, they might seek out and thank Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav for validating their line about how "the rich get rich and the poor get poorer."

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Long gone, but speaking clearly to our age – Shelley, the poet of moral and political corruption

Friday marked the bicentary of the great radical writer who wanted culture to spark the imaginations of ‘ordinary’ people

The Conversation

Percy Bysshe Shelley at 200 – how the poet became famous after his death

It is 200 years since the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned at sea at the age of 29. At the time, his life and works were considered scandalous, due in part to his reputation as a sexually liberated, vegetarian atheist, living in a reported ménage à trois. He did not…

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Five books to transport you to the Italian Riviera this summer

With its sun-drenched olive groves, sparkling waters and vivid bursts of colour, the Italian Riviera has cast its spell on tourists, painters and authors since the 19th century. Lying in the northwestern corner of Italy, the Riviera stretches along the Ligurian sea and has inspired the likes of the painter…

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Kit Harrington’s new Mary Shelley film ‘Mary’s Monster’: Everything you need to know

The Game of Thrones star will play the monster in this modern take on Frankenstein

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