My new thought on western romanticism, mostly born out here in posts on C.S. Lewis’s Allegory of Love, where it is claimed that courtly love began around 1100 a.d. (which seems timely with the s… more →
Wordswrote 3 days ago: My lack of sleep in the last couple of days drew my attention to the following article in the Observ … more →
wrote 4 days ago: Alexander, hijo del conde de Wobster, se vio despojado de su título y su posición por su primo Ch … more →
wrote 2 months ago: After a lengthy and unplanned delay, the new issue of Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Cu … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Recently, the Arts Council of Greater Lansing put up a billboard celebrating a local poet. I first s … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Gerard Carruthers will be presenting his paper, ‘Academics, Enthusiasts & Fraudsters: Chall … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Recently I’ve been having to read poems by Percy Shelley and his essay called A Defence of Poe … more →
wrote 8 months ago: We are pleased to welcome Alan Richardson (Professor of English, Boston College), who will visit Rut … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The Open University Romantic Period Research Group and Book History Group will be running a one-day … more →
wrote 1 year ago: What follows is a paper I wrote about a year ago for lit class, comparing Mary Shelley and Jane Aust … more →
wrote 1 year ago: It is a pleasure to announce to our Indian readers that can now buy the eBooks from our catalogue at … more →
wrote 1 year ago: It is an eBook about love and life. This complete collection includes stories that speak on that is … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Romanticism connected the sentiment of passionate love to artistic expression perhaps more closely t … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Romanticism connected the sentiment of passionate love to artistic expression perhaps more closely t … more →
wrote 1 year ago: In 1837, Victor Hugo wrote to his friend, Juliette Drouet, “A letter is a kiss sent by mail.” Hugo’s … more →
wrote 1 year ago: In 1837, Victor Hugo wrote to his friend, Juliette Drouet, “A letter is a kiss sent by mail.” Hugo’s … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Seduction and romantic love are often viewed as interchangeable. But, in fact, they can be polar op … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Seduction and romantic love are often viewed as interchangeable. But, in fact, they can be polar op … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto IV, by Lord Byron Canto IV of Byron’s Childe Harold … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Inspector Javert is the unstoppable antagonist of Victor Hugo’s novel Les Miserables. … more →