When music lovers compile their lists of the greatest singer-songwriters of the latter 20th century, one name that should lead the list is all-too-often ignored. Warren Zevon never achieved the superstardom of Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Billy Joel, Don Henley, Bob Dylan or many other luminaries. That is a tragedy partly brought on by Zevon’s ...
The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 was a favorite target for Charles Dickens; he never missed a chance to call attention to the law’s brutality or to deride its National Commissioners, its Boards of Guardians, and its petty officials (Brown 154). Few, of his major works fail to fire at least some satiric shots ...
The greatest shadow hovering over The Dark Knight Rises until last week wasn’t its predecessor, Heath Ledger or even The Avengers. It was the rotted legacies of Spider-Man 3, Batman Forever, X-Men: The Last Stand, Superman III, and pretty much every “threequel” and “fourquel” superhero movie ever made. But if Christopher Nolan could actually make ...
In his poem “Darkness” Lord Byron gives an apocalyptic view of the world, as he pictured it was in 1816. Through the relation of his first person speaker, using sublime imagery, which gives hints to the author’s emotional state of mind at the time, “Darkness” seems to have been written as a satirical account of ...
