Born on Halloween, 1795, John Keats (d. 1821) was a tragic character, a romantic, and a poet. Considered a key figure amongst the second generation of British Romantic poets following in the footsteps of William Wordsworth, William Blake, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Keats and his young contemporaries were more open to exploring the space in… Read More A Poet’s House, Pleasure’s Temple: Keats’ Gothic, Epic, & Sublime
“๐๐ผ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฝ ๐๐ฑ๐ช๐ฝ ๐๐ฎ ๐ต๐ธ๐ธ๐ด ๐ต๐ฒ๐ด๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ธ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ถ; ๐ช ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ต๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ด๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฝ ๐ฒ๐ท ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ญ๐ต๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ท๐ธ๐๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ?” – Lizzy, The Wind The bleak and blustering narrative of The Wind takes place during the pioneer days in a wild western state of America. Lizzy and her husband Isaac live alone, in a simple cabin surrounded by… Read More Flickering… in the Middle of Nowhere: ‘The Wind’
The Truth about Frankenstein PART ONE OF TWO Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus is victim to a whole host of misconceptions. As we began this year with the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the novel (which took place on January 1st, 1818), and as today, February 1st, is the anniversary of Mary Shelley’s (1797 –… Read More Understanding Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’, Part 1
An Ongoing Attempt to Define the ‘Gothic’ In terms of the arts (particularly literature, but also film and music, as well as static visual art – you know, ‘art proper’), the gothic is commonly considered a trope, rather than a genre. A genre is a broad classification based on qualifiers such as subject matter, style,… Read More The Gothic: What?
Generally Gothic 