Vomiting in the nineteenth century, & literature.

From Lord Byron’s Don Juan:
Than I resign thine image, oh, my fair!
Or think of any thing excepting thee;
A mind diseased no remedy can physic
(Here the ship gave a lurch, and he grew sea-sick).
“Sooner shall heaven kiss earth (here he fell sicker),
Oh, Julia! what is every other woe?
(For [...]

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The saddest life story: John Keats

I am not a big fan of the poetry of John Keats (my professor says “of course, noone likes Keats” but that might be an overstatement) but his lifestory is so beautiful and sad and romantic that I wanted to share it here.

John Keats was an English poet who lived from 1795 to 1821, he [...]

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Lord Byron (2/2)

This post is the second part of Byron sources, part one is located here
The other day I attended a theatre show, where the tv program where a dateable girl has to pick one of three bachelors was played. The girl was Richardson’s Pamela, and her choice of men were Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Oscar Wilde (he [...]

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Lord Byron (1/2)

I think everyone knows about Byron. And if you don’t, it’s only a Wikipedia click away. So I won’t tell you about his life story or works, instead, I’ll review some sources that might be fun to read, or shed a new light.
To read about Byron in an unconventional way, you can read John Crowley’s [...]

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