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Poetry

Edward Young’s Night Thoughts: Gloom, Mortality, and the Beauty of Death

Edward Young’s Night Thoughts: Gloom, Mortality, and the Beauty of Death

22 September 2025

Robert Blair’s The Grave: Dark Humour, Death, and the Questions That Haunt Us

Robert Blair’s The Grave: Dark Humour, Death, and the Questions That Haunt Us

10 September 2025

Thomas Parnell’s A Night-Piece on Death

Thomas Parnell’s A Night-Piece on Death

30 August 2025

Emily Brontë’s Spellbound: Gothic Horror and Inner Strength

Emily Brontë’s Spellbound: Gothic Horror and Inner Strength

1 August 2025

La Belle Dame Sans Merci: John Keats’ Haunting Romance

La Belle Dame Sans Merci: John Keats’ Haunting Romance

29 June 2025

William Blake’s The Sick Rose Casts Dread and Bloom

William Blake’s The Sick Rose Casts Dread and Bloom

25 June 2025

The Vampyre (1810): John Staag’s Gothic Tale of Love, Death and the Undead

The Vampyre (1810): John Staag’s Gothic Tale of Love, Death and the Undead

12 May 2025

The Giaour: Byron’s Undead Curse and the Birth of the Gothic Vampire

The Giaour: Byron’s Undead Curse and the Birth of the Gothic Vampire

5 May 2025

Chilling Beauty of Percy Shelley’s The Cold Earth Slept Below

Chilling Beauty of Percy Shelley’s The Cold Earth Slept Below

14 April 2025

Christabel: Coleridge’s Unfinished Vampire Poem

Christabel: Coleridge’s Unfinished Vampire Poem

31 March 2025

Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025

Halloween Poems to Read by Candlelight 2025

25 September 2021

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