These assertions of control unravel not merely into fragile illusions, but into a fully fledged fiasco. Take, for instance, ...

In Keswick, a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, famously known as the home of ...

The characteristic Romantic mode of expression ... is more evident in him than it is even in Coleridge, with his imaginative expressions of personal and existential guilt, or Wordsworth, whose ...

Coleridge, himself a classic example of the poetic monstre sacré, describes this magical space – the dome, the deep romantic cavern – in Kubla Khan. The poem’s last lines might well be applied to ...

The word love is elusive, a noun without context. However, its verb form, "loving," is more than the thing. It invokes poetry ...

Some five hours after the opening Mass, the cardinals were to process into the Sistine Chapel, swear an oath to uphold the ...

There’s no reason that Christopher Landon’s new thriller “Drop”, which runs for just over 90 minutes, should feel so unenergetic as it plods along towards its climax. Any hopes of genuine ...

Perhaps the first question to arise from the title of this article is quite simply why Robert Browning and Dylan Thomas ...

Dr Gail McConnell is an internationally renowned critic of poetry and an award-winning poet whose first collection, The Sun is Open, published by Penned in the Margins (2021) was the winner of the ...