Gothic Novel
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Gothic novel, European Romantic pseudomedieval fiction having a prevailing atmosphere of mystery and terror. Its heyday was the 1790s, but it underwent frequent revivals in subsequent centuries.
Called Gothic because its imaginative...
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...
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...
Believing in Literature
Source: London Review of Books AUGUST 3, 2020
THE RELATION BETWEEN belief and making is a troubled one. Anybody who has ever banged their fists on the table in an...
Hecuba, Euripides | Dramatized reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMNfNt0oSKw&feature=em-lbcastemail
One of Oscar Wilde’s Last Stops in England before Exile Was a Bookstore
Source: Literary Hub May 19, 2020
On May 18th, 1897, one day before Oscar Wilde would finish a two-year prison sentence for “gross indecency” with men, the author took a...
Albert Einstein Explains Why We Need to Read the Classics
Source: Open Culture | May 28th, 2020
Two pieces of reading advice I’ve carried throughout my life came from two early favorite writers, Herman Melville and C.S. Lewis. In one of...
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...
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...
