46 days ago by Chris

(Post title a quotation from ‘Mirror’ by Sylvia Plath) Among the many wonderful things I received for Christmas this year (pretty sure I still have the food baby) was an anthology — Modern Irish Poetry, ed. Patrick Crotty. This came from two of my parents’ closest friends, who have encouraged my rea ...

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59 days ago by Hart Williams

The Iraq War is over. Or, so we are informed. The BBC: Obama speech at Fort Bragg marks end of Iraq war US President Barack Obama has marked the end of the Iraq war with a speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, telling troops, “welcome home!” His address paid tribute to the soldiers who served in t ...

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72 days ago by kirbycairo

I am always on the lookout for early uses of the term Romanticism in English. The term Romantic as applied to literature was commonplace even in the 18th century but it usually referred things such as gothic novels or overtly pastoral material, and was often used in the pejorative sense. Romanticism ...

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76 days ago by Gaetano Veninata

Il regista britannico Ken Russell è morto all’età di 84 anni. Filed under: Dal web, Tozzetti di Talpa, Visioni Tagged: barocco, cinema, frankenstein, gothic, ken russell, lord byron, mary shelley, morte, percy shelley, romantiscismo

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98 days ago by The History Chicks

It was a dark and stormy night. Three friends sat around the fire taking turns reading German ghost stories… No, really. It was. Ok, maybe that night wasn’t stormy, but it was a summer night in 1816, when a then 18 year- old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, and the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and ...

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103 days ago by oliver dixon

In the fascinating St Paul's protest that's currently dominating the news, this slogan stuck out for me. Of course it was Christ who - showing his less than meek and gentle side - protested against the money-lenders in the temple at Jerusalem by unceremoniously throwing them out onto the street. The ...

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105 days ago by stephen frost

This is why I’m terrified to apply to go back to school: because I sit around for 11 hours coming up with muck like this FOR FUN (as Laura is quick to remind me when I dismiss her for bothering my train of thought!) I’m pretty sure that I’m not making the world a better place… Intro – Early bio of P ...

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108 days ago by stephen frost

I’ve been in a rut lately. We both have. I suspect it has something to do with that quarter-life crisis everyone’s going through. There’s so much potential for action that always seems to manifest itself in decisive inaction. Shopping for dishes, putting books in thematic order, wondering how two pe ...

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109 days ago by charlotte gordon

I was just re-reading that great iconic biography by Richard Holmes, The Pursuit. It’s his story of Shelley, the one where he (Holmes) reviles Mary (which he had to apologize for semi-recently), and he has entire chapters, yes, chapters on Shelley’s poems. All of which I devoured. But I am unusual. ...

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110 days ago by charlotte gordon

Recently, I found a bunch of “historical” blogs where faux historical characters record their thoughts in diaries composed by the blog’s author: “October 25, 1778. Today I ate hardtack and then pounded the corn for bread.” Why don’t I do this? Because my characters don’t do soothing historical re-en ...

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