As famous French writer Stendhal comments, “Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.” Perhaps that is why some people just hate to read romance. It seems that something in the pleasure of sexuality is lost when it hits the pages of a trashy romance novel. Ages before contemporary writers such as Nora Roberts began pouring ...
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 ...
The use of opium has occurred for thousands of years throughout the world. The images and dreams induced by the opium poppy have inspired artists and been the subject of their works for centuries. In British culture writers were influenced by the effects of opium and its more socially-acceptable medicinal form, laudanum. Made infamous by ...
In a majority of poems from the Romantic era there is a profusion of the use of supernatural and mythological references in reference to the content of the individual pieces. They would come in various states and mean different things, yet they would all serve the same purpose and that would be to help the ...
