The Electric Age

I have always loved the 1994 film Il Postino , about the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, in exile (fictionally) on an Italian island. The film ro...

As I was looking at Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog in one of the earlier posts on this blog, the sort of r...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" is a poem written in a very personal manner, where Coleridge descri...

I do not understand quite how the poem "To Autumn" and this painting based off of the poem are related. I see no images from the p...

I think this painting is one of the best embodiments of the Romantic period there is. It is "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" by Fr...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan is the product of a an opium-fueled dream, in which Coleridge imagines what life would be like if n...

It seems quite fitting that we conclude this semester with Wordsworth’s The Prelude, a piece that Wordsworth worked and reworked for the l...