George Gordon Byron, more famously known as Lord Byron, was a prolific English romantic poet, though he is mostly known for Don Juan, a 17-cantos poem whose scandalous subject matter (in it, he openly expresses his disgust of fellow poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge) only lends to its popularity among scholars of English … Continue reading The Greatest Crime in Literary History
Month: May 2024
Denying Joy
I love guinea pigs. If you've followed me for any amount of time, you won't be surprised by this. These little half-pound meat potatoes bring so much joy to my life, and I've had to exercise an insane amount of self-control to limit myself to only three. My retirement goal is to open a guinea … Continue reading Denying Joy
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Anneleis Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929, the second of two daughters born to Otto and Edith Frank. Life in post-World War I Germany was rough, not only because unemployment was high and poverty was severe, but also because Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party, seizing on the country's growing anger, were … Continue reading Prinsengracht 263