Articles related to "Coleridge"

Brief biography and works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, pioneer of the English Romantic movement in poetry.

In this controversial and popular interpretation, naive Christabel's blossoming sexuality is opened up by Geraldine, a beautiful woman she meets beneath a tree.

An analysis of the problems inherent in rediscovering and 'rewriting' the lives of nineteenth century women poets.

If you're studying Coleridge or any other British Romantic poets in college, university, or any another classroom, here's the lowdown on one of his more famous poems.

The irreverent piece, "The Hymn of a Fat Woman," puts on display the cluelessnes of a speaker who tries to excuse her own corpulence by demeaning slim women saints.

Our image of Hamlet is a durable one - but does it have any basis in the play Shakespeare wrote?

Mary Lamb, raised in London, in austerity battled dark depression. She rose to the status of a brilliant Victorian writer despite the constraints of the era.

While mentioning summer, William Blake's "The Schoolboy" is not really a poem that focuses on summer, but a lament of a youngster who simply hates to attend school.

Brief biography and works of William Wordsworth, England's Poet Laureate, known for his epic poem The Prelude.

Compiled from two of his lectures, this essay appeared in Donald Hall's collection Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-88.

Man's biography while loosely written tells the fascinating story of Mongol King Kublai Khan who did much to shape the modern world but especially China and Asia

This picturesque, harbour near Exmoor National Park features the tiny Culbone Church, which was used to shelter lepers. It is also where Coleridge wrote "Kubla Khan"

The Roxy Theatre stage must be like a second home to Tom Albrecht - asked in 2007 by Owen Sound Little Theatre director Michael Rea to play the title role in Hamlet.

Albatrosses are large seabirds best known to those who spend a lot of time at sea south of the equator or in the North Pacific.

Brief biography of William Hazlitt, one of the greatest English writers of essays, famous for Characters of Shakespeare's Plays and Life of Napoleon.

Mary Darby Robinson (1752-1800) was one of the most prolific and well-known writers of the Romantic era (1789-1819). She wrote poetry, plays, novels, and essays.

Ann Fadiman clearly loves language and expresses that love in this collection of essays - a neglected literary form even as it meets the need of today's time poor reader.

Brief biography of Charles Lamb, English writer best known for essays.

Continuing the guide to the "musts" of the poetry, prose, and plays of eighteenth and nineteenth century British writers and their works...

Why writing for screen isn't like writing poetry, but how basic principles poets live by can further develop and facilitate writing dramatic and powerful action

Why should anyone in the 21st century be interested in a 19th-century English journalist and thinker who was dismissed as by T.S. Eliot as tasteless?

From the 18th century to the present day, Gothic fiction has fascinated and terrified. This introduction explains the origins of the genre and its popular conventions.

Poetic technique shocks readers into awareness of Other realities. Several literary tactics explored in this article.

Gothic architecture in Europe and Great Britain grew out the Crusades. The rounded arches in churches soon evolved to the strong arch and Gothic style was born.

First of the three flawless albums that Nick Drake released in his brief career. A seminal album of British folk music of the sixties

A colorful, hardy annual, Calendula is used as saffron in cooking. This sunny flower has healing antiseptic properties. It is used for decorating Hindu temples.

A school for poor children established in London in 1552 was more closely associated with the American colonies than any other English educational institution.

These writing quotes provide hope and guidance for struggling writers. Find advice and words of wisdom in these quotes from the masters like Chekov, Atwood and Twain.

The changing seasons provide a myriad of different flowers to make the design and variety of floral arrangements unique. It is also cheaper to use flowers in season;

Looking for something a bit different to read over the holidays? Try this challenging but rewarding story of one woman's battle to scrap the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act.

Top producers of artisan wines of great character and individuality in the Languedoc-Roussillon region are now gaining recognition for consistent results.

The principal reasons for the creation of the modernist literary movement was a need for redefining paradigms and for separating itself from the romantic past.

Considering the New Critical style of reading that we all learned in High School.

Two universities, each subdivided into many colleges - spire inspirations for many writers and works of fantasy...fatal, freakish, and fairytale stories from Oxbridge.

Biography and works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's greatest poets and essayists, 19th century leader of transcendentalism.

Joshua Kendall's biography of Peter Mark Roget, the man behind Roget's Thesaurus, is an in-depth look at a man who did far more than author one of our handiest references

Romantic literature focuses on nature, emotion, love and fear. Romantic writers include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Mary Shelly and Emily Bronte.

In answering the question, "where does creative imagination come from?", many would answer: "from within".

The Devil Kissed Her by Kathy Watson is the story of Mary Lamb authoress and mad woman.

In 1857 the Philological Society of London decided that existing English dictionaries were insufficient and they commissioned a review of language from Anglo Saxon times

Albatrosses were immortalized by Coleridge in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. People on land usually don't see these beautiful seabirds.

Whether by intent or accident, many amazing and significant buildings around the world have been destroyed or simply never made it any further than the drawing board.

Hamlet is a truly heroic figure. But the challenge to any director of the play is to explain Hamlet's delay in killing Claudius without undermining Hamlet's status.

There is a long song in every Iron Maiden album; the tracks are kind of rock opera with epic lyrics and music.

Harriott moved to England in 1952 and immediately created an impact on the British Scene with his total command of the popular Be-Bop style and his excellent musicality.

A strange gathering of intellectual luminaries during one "haunted summer" produced one of literature's most enduring creations.

In order to create believable characters, settings, and events, best-selling fiction writers employ several tried-and-true techniques.

Robert Frost wrote many poems in blank verse. With this early poem, he showed how poetic devices other than rhyme can make the words into effective poetry.

Show explores who we are and what makes us unique. Display outlines the lives and achievements of nine people whose experience has influenced the study of human identity.

The assimilation of William Blake's words into modern society has made them so ingrained in our culture that his work often goes unattributed.