In which I discuss whether Hurricane Milton is punishing Florida for banning Milton’s “Paradise Lost”?
Tag Archives: Lord Byron
Hurricane Milton and the Bad Angels
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Byron, Shelley & Greek Independence
A case can be made that Byron and Shelley poems had a tangible effect on the 1820s Greek rebellion.
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Winter’s Assyrian Invasion
Monday When the polar vortex descended on the United States last week, the opening lines from Lord Byron’s “The Destruction of Sennacherib” came to mind. While I’d memorized the stanza in high school to learn anapestic meter (short-short-long), it captures the emotional force of extreme weather events. (Another Byron poem that does so is “Darkness”) […]
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Byron’s Climate Change Nightmare
Wednesday News about climate change grows grimmer by the month, with the latest governmental reports predicting that extreme weather events will kill thousands while devastating national economies. I therefore share today a 19th century climate change poem although, in this instance, the climate grows colder rather than warmer. In 1816 the world experienced “the year without […]
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Imagining Little Ocean’s Future
Looking for the literary significance of my latest grandchild, I turn to Walcott, Whitman, Masefield, Coleridge, and Byron. What emerges is a mystical seeker.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", "Sea Fever", "Tales of the Islands", baby names, Derek Walcott, J. D. Salinger, John Masefield, John Milton, Laurence Sterne, Lucille Clifton, Paradise Lost, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, To Esme with Love and Squalor, Tristram Shandy, Walt Whitman, William Blake Comments closed
The Pleasure of a Pathless Wood
For Americans, wilderness is a more unkempt affair than it for Europeans.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alexander Pope, Childe Harold, Evangeline, forests, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nature, Romanticism, wilderness, Windsor Forest Comments closed
Crossing (or Not) the Hellespont
I revisited Byron’s poem about swimming the Hellespont/Dardanelles after a friend tried the feat.
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Roll On, Thou Alabama Crimson Tide, Roll
Byron’s “deep and dark blue ocean” rolls on and so does the Alabama Crimson Tide.
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