Archive - The Rest is Literature

Introduction: A quest ‘To sooth the cares’

An extract from my thesis about Wordsworth, ‘Despondency Corrected’

Jul 9 • Joshua Gaskell

Verset for the Day

A selection from #151–200

Jul 5 • Joshua Gaskell

The Rest is Literature audio round-up

Recommendations and links (June 2026)

Jul 2 • Joshua Gaskell

Flustered with Flowing Cups

Alcohol as the lubricant of Shakespearean tragedy

Jul 1 • Joshua Gaskell

June 2026

Seventeen Haiku

十七の俳句

Jun 20 • Joshua Gaskell

‘Where would you like to be when the world ends?’

~waterwalk photoessay~

Jun 16 • Joshua Gaskell

May 2026

The Rest is Literature audio round-up

Recommendations and links (May 2026)

May 31 • Joshua Gaskell

When Saturday Comes

The Rituals of Parkrun

May 25 • Joshua Gaskell

Verset for the Day

A selection from #101–150

May 16 • Joshua Gaskell

A Book is a Person

‘The Journal of a Disappointed Man’ (1919) by W. N. P. Barbellion

May 2 • Joshua Gaskell

April 2026

The Rest is Literature audio round-up

Recommendations and links (April 2026)

Apr 30 • Joshua Gaskell

‘I might do’t as well i’th’dark’

Notes on Emilia in ‘Othello’

Apr 18 • Joshua Gaskell

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