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Mason Carter

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Review of 'The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe' on 'Goodreads'

Poe has always been an inspiration for me. I love the gothic scenes and strange mixture of misery, glee and gloom in his verses. He has most certainly always been one of my favourite poets.

reviewed Paradise Lost by John Milton (Library of English literature -- LEL 10149.)

John Milton: Paradise Lost (2003, Printed for Jacob Tonson)

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. …

Review of 'Paradise Lost' on 'Goodreads'

Loved the poem and it was fun teaching. The allegory and allusions were quite fantastic and forced me to journey through Greek, Roman, and Biblical mythologies.

Thomas Hardy: Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (2001, Dover Publications)

An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature's most admirable and tragic heroines...Tess Durbeyfield …

Review of "Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles" on 'Goodreads'

Loved it. It depicts place of a woman in a patriarchal society. Her exploitation by men and defame. It' s always the case that women are hated and taken more liable to punishments of society while men for same ethical crimes are held as ideal.

Review of 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra -Friedrich Nietzsche' on 'Goodreads'

I taught it in class and my students loved it. It presents a different view on life and society. The theory of Superman and going beyond good and evil to proceed forward in human evolution.
The text is in form of sermons that Zarathustra delivers which makes it look like a religious book and that is so clever of Nietzsche how he uses the character of Prophet Zarathustra -who introduced ethics in ancient times- to go beyond good and evil.