text by Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys ‘Darkling I listen; and, for many a time, I have been half in love with easeful Death…’ “Ode to a Nightingale”, 51-2 From George Orwell and Daphne de Maurier to Gerald Mainley Hopkins, John Constable, Leigh Hunt, and, naturally, John Keats, Hampstead provided both inspiration and refuge to some of England’s […]
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 Grażyna Bystydzieńska This book was written as a doctoral thesis for the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, in 2022 but sadly, Ewa Młynarczyk died before she was able to take her doctoral examinations and complete the procedures for the award of the degree. In her Preface, Ewa Młynarczyk wrote: “ For […]
