text by Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys Apart from many other good reasons, there is a particularly good motivation to visit London in May: the annual John Keats Conference, which I have had the pleasure of attending three times by now. The conference is organized by the John Keats Foundation and held at an extraordinary place: Keats House […]
text by Monika Coghen … for true words are things, And dying men’s are things which long outlive,And oftentimes avenge them … Byron, Marino Faliero, act V, sc. I, 162-164 In one of his last poems “January 22nd, Missolonghi. On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year,” Byron memorably expressed a desire for a soldier’s death. Some […]
text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko This question has motivated numerous texts – plays, novels, short stories, parodies, pastiches, fanfiction, ‘Grand Game’ studies, movies, TV shows, video and board games – and apparently both their creators and the audiences are still fascinated with its (im)possible outcomes. Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper have developed in parallel and, up […]
