Etsy is an online marketplace full of handmade items, vintage goods, and crafting supplies. The interactive site allows sellers to easily set up shop while encouraging buyers to navigate through the thousands of fantastic handmade items. Jewelry is one of thirty categories listed on Etsy and below are the top five Etsy shops to view ...
Mary Shelley was born in 1796, the daughter of literary and influential parents. William Godwin was a philosopher, and Mary Wollstonecraft was a novelist, reformer, and one of the first feminists. Mary Shelley never got to meet her mother, since she died ten days after giving birth to her. Wollstonecraft survived a long and painful ...
The Romantic movement of poets and artists in the nineteenth century marked a shift from the earlier thinking of the Enlightenment. Enlightenment thinkers saw nature as a representation of scientific principals, or an orderly representation of the universe. By contrast, Romantic artists viewed nature as the representation of God in the natural universe, the source ...
The most incredible footnote to me concerning Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, written in 1818, is that she wrote the story when she was nineteen years old (what kind of nineteen-year old thinks like this)? Mary Shelley was by no means your ordinary teenager. She married poet Percy Blythe Shelly and hung out with intellectuals such ...
One advantage of military service is that you often get the opportunity to visit places that you otherwise might never see. In the case of our family, we had the opportunity to spend three wonderful years in Germany. We were there from 1975 until 1978; during the time when the German people still love Americans ...
Thomas Love Peacock’s The Four Ages of Poetry stands as a near-perfect archetype for perhaps the finest type of negative critical evaluation, one that defiantly provokes the creators of the work it is criticizing while elegantly pointing out the problems in the work itself and at the same time issuing a heartfelt call for wholesale ...
John Keats was born in London, England, on October 31, 1795 (although, the true date is unknown, because Keats never admitted the real day of his birthday), the first child out of five, to Frances Jennings Keats and Thomas Keats. In 1804 while Keats was ten, John’s father died in an accident at work, and ...
In “Prometheus Unbound” Percy Bysshe Shelley expresses his enthusiasm for revolutionary change through the plot device and resulting thematic element of generational upheaval taking place through the poem’s specific action of Jupiter’s own progeny being the force which brings about his downfall. Demogorgon may stand for the nebulous spirit of children of tyranny who lay ...
Advanced education began in Oxford, England, in 1096. In 1167 Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris and other foreign colleges. Thus began the foundation of Oxford University, the oldest in Britain and one of the most famous universities in the world. From humble, informal settings, University College, founded in 1249, ...