Hecuba, Euripides | Dramatized reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMNfNt0oSKw&feature=em-lbcastemail
The Later Romantics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhIdAQOxAs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiU4gmktJas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B10jwBD8p8M
Der Tod | Rainer Maria Rilke
Da steht der Tod, ein bläulicher Absud
in einer Tasse ohne Untersatz.
Ein wunderlicher Platz für eine Tasse:
steht auf dem Rücken einer Hand. Ganz gut
erkennt man noch an dem glasierten Schwung
den...
Elizabeth Frazer reads “The Graveyard by The Sea”, by Paul Valery
https://youtu.be/ckY1txe2xdU
Source: Brittanica.com
The Graveyard by the Sea, poem by Paul Valéry, written in French as “Le Cimetière marin” and published in 1922 in the collection Charmes; ou poèmes. The poem, set in...
Happy 185th wedding anniversary to Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Clemm.
Source: Lit Hub, September 22, 2020
By Dan Sheehan
On this day in 1835, history’s most macabre literary lovebirds ghouled their way to Baltimore City Hall to file for a marriage...
Albert Camus and the problem of absurdity
Albert Camus and the problem of absurdity
Source: OUP Philosophy
The OUP Philosophy list boasts cutting-edge scholarship including monographs handbooks and textbooks - suitable for graduate and undergraduate use, as well...
Mourning Problems — Xi Chuan
Mourning Problems
by Xi Chuan
Source: The Paris Review
an ant dies, and no one mourns
a bird dies, and no one mourns if it isn’t a crested ibis
a monkey dies, and monkeys...
The Story of Carmilla: Literature’s First Vampire Was Actually a Woman
Source: Ancient Origins
The novel Dracula, written by Bram Stoker and published in 1897, became a cult classic of horror literature throughout the world. It brought vampire legends to a wider...
Bats: Out of Hell?
It took an Irish Gothic novelist to tie up centuries of demonic mythology surrounding this leathery, nocturnal mammal.
Source: History Today Volume 70 Issue 10 October 2020
By Alexander Lee
What would vampires...