The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The descendants of Charles Darwin, his publisher – and his pigeons – met this week on the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species "That's the fireplace where Byron's memoirs were burned after his death because they were thought too salacious," my host Virginia Murray casually throws into the conversation as she shows me around the upstairs drawing room...
jellybean weirdo with electric snake fang (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
in the cool morning air memories of garden work wisteria skeleton grapevine hurricane to project its arch neurotic cat lord byron's one droopy bloom, a friend to ancient melampodion strong green bamboo weak unemployed husband waiting remembering warm nights in a tiny stony patio shem ne holoflamenorb the several variegated are ornamental virus whoa! health returns! sleep hornbeam umbrella sleep dogwood...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
"Planning your next vacation and don't want to miss Lord Byron's final resting place? Want to see Charles Baudelaire's last stop? With this handy website [www.poetsgraves.co.uk] you can search by poet's name or by location, get maps to the gravesite, read a sample of the deceased's work or a brief but informative biographical note."...
Vancouver Opera Blog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Having sung on some of the most prestigious opera stages including the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, Bastille Opera Paris and the Metropolitan Opera, Hasmik Papian is regarded as one of the most successful lyrical-dramatic sopranos in the world. Hasmik Papian will be open Vancouver Opera's Golden Anniversary season in her signature role as Bellini's Norma. Guilty musical pleasure? Can any musical...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... Heartbreaker Lord Byron busts the bank! (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
News Article Tape: ( ragline )___ MR Zine: Trance (Langston Hughes: In Translation) ___( ragline )___ Guernica: Bolaño Inc. ___( ragline )___ Radio Free Asia: Late Activist's Writings Saved ___( ragline )___ The Guardian: Siegfried Sassoon: The reluctant hero ___( ragline )___ The Guardian: Siegfried Sassoon archive likely to stay in UK after £550,000 award ___( ragline )___ London Review...
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
of Byron letters to come to market in over 30 years exceeded its pre-sale high estimate to fetch £277,250 (488,332.22 CAD); plus, in so doing, it set a world auction record for any group of letters or manuscript by a British Romantic poet. "We are absolutely delighted," reporteth Dr. Gabriel Heaton, Sotheby's Senior Specialist, Books and Manuscripts Department, "with the above-estimate...
Avoiding the Muse (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
"Today in London, a collection of letters from British poet Lord George Byron sold at auction for $459,110.67, exceeding the highest pre-sale estimates by more than $160,000 and selling for more than any other letters or manuscript by a British Romantic poet. Although the letters were written to a clergyman, they were -- in keeping with Lord Byron's reputation -- somewhat scandalous."(via...
book-a-rama (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
When we last saw our heroine, things were bleak. She was alone again, naturally. In Rises the Night , the vampires are in half-time and Victoria Gardella has nothing to do except mope. Max has disappeared as well and even Sebastian has flown the coop. But then *VAMPIRES* and Victoria starts getting her grove back. Rumour has it that a vampire named Nedas has found a mysterious object that can raise...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
A curious book which is going to be published contains a bizarre Brontë reference. Well, specifically a Brontë blogger reference (!). On Publishers Weekly : Jane Bites Back Michael Thomas Ford. Ballantine Books Trade Paperback, 320 pages * On Sale: January 5, 2010 * Price: $14.00 * ISBN: 978-0-345-51365-6 (0-345-51365-7) Ford's (Last Summer) fang-tastic satire of the Jane Austen craze catches...
amy king's alias (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Verse broadens the mind, scientists find RICHARD GRAY (rgray@scotlandonsunday.com) IF LITERATURE is food for the mind, then a poem is a banquet, according to research by Scottish scientists which shows poetry is better for the brain than prose. Psychologists at Dundee and St Andrews universities claim the work of poets such as Lord Byron exercise the mind more than a [...]
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Like any simulation of noble savagery by members of the middle-class, nature mysticism is always an amusing spectacle. I was led to this site by its misguided reference to Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditation . The author also refers to that well-known spiritual adept Lord Byron: “The words of Byron express the oneness with nature, which has, since Rousseau, been the obsession of nature...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Why the undead are perfect for illustrating the sexual divide Our current preoccupation with zombies and vampires is easy to explain. They're two sides of the same coin, addressing our fascination with sex, death and food. They're both undead, they both feed on us, they both pass on some kind of plague and they can both be killed with specialist techniques – a stake through the heart or a disembraining....
Words of a Writer (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad." ~ Lord Byron"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket." ~ Charles Peguy"If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it - I might be writing in my dreams." ~ Danzae Pace"Easy reading is damn hard writing." ~ Nathaniel...
Dialectical Migrations (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s38k5-yl1q4 "Out of world-sadness, out of tristimania, immortal and durable things are brought into being." -- Edel "Is getting well ever an art/ or art a way to get well?"--- Lowell "We of the craft are all crazy."-- Lord Byron I've been reading TOUCHED WITH FIRE by Kay Redfield Jamison.
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