On Embracing the Fantastic in Literature: Coleridge vs. Tolkien
Coleridge´s concept of “willing suspension of disbelief” argues that a reader’s mind can transcend known reality and naturally embrace the impossible in a work of fiction.
7 Everyday English Words Coined by Coleridge
Of all the concepts associated with English Romantic poetry, romance has the least to do with it.
Poetry on Big Screen: 12 Movies with Poetic References (Part 2)
Even though often considered a dying art, poetry still has an important place in people’s lives and, by extension, in popular culture.
Poetry Monday – Awakening in the midst of Autumn
*** I learnt emotion in dead air on the other side of the sandpit holidays aren’t sensations is the scent of vacation a breath of fresh air? a…
“Greed is Good”
I do not need a Volpone-guide,
I do not need El Dorado bright.
Gold is not what I had ever eyed.
I will not succumb to that blight.
Ah, that Pain, that Love, that Misery
My heart is a tumbling stone.
A small, round, grey ball,
shaped by the northern winds that blow.
My heart is a tumbling stone.
A heavy burden keeping me low.
Where have the emotions gone?
I don't know.
Never-ending Street
On the other side of never-ending street,
with me, walks a lonely shadow.
And it treads, with me,
on this never-ending meadow.