Tag Archives: Lord Byron

suddenly mary

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: MONSTER UNLEASHED: Happy Birthday Mary Shelley 1797-1851 It was a “wet, ungenial summer” in Switzerland when Mary Godwin (traveling as “Mrs. Shelley”) went to Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley and their son, and Claire Clairmont … Continue reading

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the odd couple: birds of a leather

Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle…. …Jane whose character included a certain touch of masochism, held a certain profound relish for the domestic drama. She had thought of writing a novel, she admitted, about the “mysteries” of Number 6, her … Continue reading

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a-roving on the wane and sane

The cup is full and sometimes it runneth over.  The moon has always been, since the dawn of the human being, a symbol of love, and a pervasive theme  among artists such as poets, novelists and writers and painters within … Continue reading

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park it on the parthenon: bonds & byzantium

Its an object of blame for a crisis that it is not to be blamed for. This idea of north and south is an excuse for invidious comparison: the industrious, virtuous, thrifty north and their slightly darker Mediterranean neighbors to … Continue reading

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don’t let the sun go down on them

Do only the good die young? Should we trust anyone over thirty? There was always Rimbaud, the brilliant prodigy, the romantic who was simply pining to be able to fall on his sword. And Keats and Byron who could not … Continue reading

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charisma of the radiant but broken

Soul under the spell of the moon. The thrill. The construction of empty form. Kitsch before there was kitsch. It meant using high art to express low life, the underworld and it was the beginning of sensationalism that the reign … Continue reading

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prisoner of love: escaping the gatekeeper

Attacking the bourgeois values, but the greater the assault the more apparent that the author, in his own particular way, was part of the elite, canonized as cultural commodity himself, like Burroughs and Ginsberg, an icon, a spokesman for articulating … Continue reading

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haywain: pulling at straws of pessimism

The Haywain by Hieronymus Bosch is almost as complex as the Garden of Earthly Delights. It carries a similar message; that of desperate pessimism. Even in the darkest of the Christian books of the Bible Hell exists for the damned, … Continue reading

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Clouds of celebrity:A fiction somewhere drunk with passion

Dancing with the stars. Celebrity. What price? ……..Celebrity is not the same as being celebrated , but celebrity is often a precondition of being famous.The  concept of celebrity as study in itself, as in being a celebrity,is a modern invention, … Continue reading

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those a-ha! moments: fetish for the pathologically creative

There is an element of intentional controversy. He just happened to have a infant’s skull tucked away in the corner of the workshop and bingo! he found the right context to use it. It was one of those a-ha moments, … Continue reading

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