By Daniel LeachFeb 23, 201934 minProfile in Poetry: Keats' Great Odes & the SublimeThis article is republished with permission from the author. When John Keats died in Rome on Feb. 23, 1821, at the age of 25, the world...
By David B. GosselinNov 19, 20183 minBeyond the Lines: Edgar Poe's "El Dorado""Just as the lily is repeated in the lake, or the eyes of Amaryllis in the mirror, so is the mere oral or written repetition of these...
By David B. GosselinNov 10, 201830 minProfiles in Poetry: Friedrich Schiller“Trust me, the fountain of youth, it is no fable. It is running Truly and always. Ye ask, where? In poetical art.” - Friedrich Schiller,...
By David B. GosselinOct 29, 201832 minWhy John Keats Is Not a RomanticWhile most professors and critics place John Keats in the same category of poets as Romantics like Lord Byron, William Wordsworth and...
By David B. GosselinOct 11, 20184 minBeyond the Lines: LerchengesangWe are inaugurating a new series, aimed at taking a different poem on each occasion and analyzing it from the standpoint of how a great...