Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1579

The Emperor’s New Clothes

A telling satire on fashionable thinking among the elite.

1580

The Goose with the Golden Egg

Don’t get greedy when things are going well.

1581

‘I Remember’

A poem of nostalgia tinged with regret.

1582

The Music of Silence

In Coleridge’s epic poem, the Ancient Mariner, amid the horrors of a ship of dead men, sees a sight both beautiful and surreal.

1583

November

Humorist Thomas Hood obviously didn’t like to see the nights drawing in

1584

Ozymandias

The glory of political power soon passes away.