John Keats was a brilliant poet and a darling of the Romantic age and whilst his legacy has been somewhat eclipsed by the formidable shadow of Lord Byron, many snippets from his works have slipped into common usage. For example “A thing of beauty is a joy forever’, that was his, it’s from a poem…
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Second Name Basis – The Vampyre by John Polidori
Accompanying episode of The FrankenPod : John Polidori and the Infinite Sadness The Vampyre is one of those novels that has no chance of living up to its legacy. The fraternal twin of that famous ghost story competition that birthed Frankenstein, The Vampyre had a lot to live up to purely based on its genesis. John Polidori…
John Polidori and the Infinite Sadness
Accompanying episode: John Polidori and the Infinite Sadness John Polidori Born on 7th of September, 1795 in London. Died aged 25 on the 24th of August, 1821, in London Polidori wrote his thesis on sleepwalking during his time studying at the University of Edinburgh (name-checked more than once in our Body Snatchers episode with Courtney…
The League of Incense – The Villa Diodati
This article was written to accompany The FrankenPod episode “The League of Incense – The Villa Diodati” and our continuing exploration of Frankenstein, Or the Modern Day Prometheus and it’s author Mary Shelley. In 1816 the after-effects of a devastating eruption of Mount Tambora the year beforehand were seriously messing with weather patterns and consequently…
MK Pinder Writes 