Opium Use in Nineteenth Century British Literature
The use of opium has occurred for thousands of years throughout the world. The images and dreams induced by the opium poppy have inspired artists … Read more
The use of opium has occurred for thousands of years throughout the world. The images and dreams induced by the opium poppy have inspired artists … Read more
The most incredible footnote to me concerning Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, written in 1818, is that she wrote the story when she was nineteen years … Read more
As famous French writer Stendhal comments, “Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.” Perhaps that is why some people just hate to read romance. It … Read more
In a majority of poems from the Romantic era there is a profusion of the use of supernatural and mythological references in reference to the … Read more