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Friedrich Schiller’s little poem is one of the greatest works of German Classicism, the revival of Greek thought and literary forms centered in the Weimar that Goethe and Schiller made famous, but its theme of the death of beauty is no less Romantic, and we should not forget how important the Greeks were to the […]
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As an undergraduate in 1964 I took a seminar in the English Romantics (the six male poets then considered canonical) and was imprinted like a chick by the first poet we read, William Blake. I couldn’t get enough of Blake, who was fascinatingly different from me, a Unitarian trained in the sciences, but who was […]
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Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel about a mysterious pandemic that obliterates human beings attracted attention during the advent of AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s; once again The Last Man has a sad currency. Her reflection in her ‘Journal of Sorrow’, ‘The last man! Yes, I may well describe that solitary being’s feelings, feeling myself as […]
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I have been asking myself what wisdom or solace the Romantic poets might offer us during this time of death and fear and self-isolation. We won’t be climbing Mont Blanc or Mount Snowden anytime soon, or sailing off to Albania and Greece, or spending moonlit nights in the ruins of Rome. We won’t be meeting […]
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Assembling The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein raised some interesting questions at the developmental stage about the type of coverage that students would find helpful. Frankenstein is a novel that is taught in a variety of contexts and courses, including modules on Romanticism, the Gothic, science fiction and gender studies, amongst many others. It is also […]
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