Tag Archives: poetry

White Paper: The Historicity of Tristan and Isolde: People, Places, and Sources

Posted on September 26, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The legend of Tristan and Isolde sits at the confluence of Insular Celtic memory, Breton transmission, and Continental literary craft. While the fully developed romance—love potion, clandestine affair, and chivalric fatalism—reflects 12th–13th-century court culture, multiple early Insular references, … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Geopolitics of Beowulf: Lessons from the Poem and the Germanic Legendary World

Posted on September 21, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The Old English epic Beowulf is often read as heroic poetry, an allegory of Christian virtue, or a martial narrative of monsters and heroes. Yet beneath its surface lies a sophisticated meditation on geopolitics, power, and inter-polity relations … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Stuffed Owl

Posted on June 14, 2024 by nathanalbright

The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology Of Bad Verse, selected and arranged by D.B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee, Introduction by Billy Collins This book is, to some extents, a project of its time, the early 20th century, when it first … Continue reading →

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One Of Us

Posted on July 27, 2023 by nathanalbright

Are you one of us?Tell me right now, are you one of us?We look after our own, and we would look after you too, if you were one of us. Do you think like us, do you act like us, … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Dared And Done

Posted on September 27, 2020 by nathanalbright

Dared And Done: The Marriage Of Elizabeth Barrett And Robert Browning, by Julia Markus The author has clearly picked an interesting area to discuss, but this book is not nearly as good as it should be, and I found myself … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Poetical Works Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Posted on September 15, 2020 by nathanalbright

The Poetical Works Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with a new introduction by Ruth M. Adams Sometimes more is less. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was, as this volume helpfully informs us, a very prolific and beloved poetess during the early Victorian era … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Selected Poems (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Posted on September 15, 2020 by nathanalbright

Selected Poems, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning This book is a relatively short compilation of some of the more notable poems by Victorian poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning. While in her own lifetime she was a very famous and well-regarded writer of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Love Letters Of Elizabeth Barrett And Robert Browning

Posted on September 15, 2020 by nathanalbright

The Love Letters Of Elizabeth Barrett And Robert Browning, by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning Reading this book made me feel a bit sad, and I’m not sure that this was the response to the material that the editors were … Continue reading →

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Oh Sun, Tyrant Of The Summer Sky

Posted on September 8, 2020 by nathanalbright

Oh sun, tyrant of the summer sky, I stare with impunity at your orb, Glowing orange as it dips in the west, And instead of blinding me as you ought to do, Instead you look like a light bulb not … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts On Phillis Wheatley, Or On The Strangeness Of Encountering Writers Like Oneself

Posted on September 5, 2020 by nathanalbright

Those of us who are fond of reading the writings of early Americans in the colonial and early Republican period will sooner or later have to deal with the case of Phillis Wheatley. This was true in her own time, … Continue reading →

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