Morphosis

The last section of David Lodge's Changing Places (1975) takes the form of a screenplay. Philip Swallow, the British professor, an...

It has only belatedly occurred to me that Keats's ‘Belle Dame' is named for the triple goddess . That is to say, hers is three n...

This print is called 'Admiral Bembow courageously commanding his Men to fight after his Leg was shattered to Pieces'. Benbow los...

Horace's desperately famous line, 'it is a sweet and proper thing, to die for your country', is (of course) invoked here wit...

I think this would have more satirical force if everybody didn't look so very jolly.

One of John Milton's most famous phrases, this; perhaps his most famous phrase of all. It's from 'Lycidas' (1638) of cou...

Shakespeare, eighteen years dead, crops up as a passing reference in  William Habingdon , his Castara (1634). Since Habingdon was only elev...