La Belle Dame Sans Merci, 1901, by Frank Dicksee

One Knight Stand

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In my youth, many a story of rip-roaring adventure, thrills, unbelievable coincidences, and misplaced shoes often began with the following exchange: “What happened to you...

Tam Lin Remembers The Faerie Queen

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She had eyes like apple seeds. A small, angular face that reminded me of a fox’s mask. Was it a mask she wore the whole time I...
Landscape in Scotland, 1875, by Gustave Doré ©Wikimedia Commons

When You Walk Through a Storm

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Earth has not any thing to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in...

Wild in the Woodlands

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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them...
Illustration from L.E.L.’s Heath’s Book of Beauty, 1833

LEL: The Forgotten Fairy Queen of the Romantics

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By Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman “She was tall; —a queen might wear Such a proud imperial air; She was tall, yet when unbound, Swept her...

To Quicken The Beatings of The Heart: Reanimating that Romantic Night...

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Surely the most lush and extravagant creative-writing workshop in history played out in June 1816 at Lord Byron’s summer rental on Lake Geneva. It...
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1817, by Caspar David Friedrich

Know Your Romantic Man

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The men who wrote history’s most luscious movement into being had personalities as big as their characters’. They believed in genius and expected it...
Annie Oakley - famous rifle shot and holder of the Police Gazette championship medal

When Annie Oakley Kicked Hearst’s Ass

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America’s favorite sharpshooter suffered a sugary makeover in Hollywood and Broadway depictions, which depicted her as someone willing to throw matches and stomach bratty...
Photography by Kyle Cassidy, Strange Star Mary Shelley, A One-Woman Show by Jennifer Summerfield

Strange Star

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Interview by Carolyn Turgeon Photography by Kyle Cassidy Strange Star Mary Shelley, A One-Woman Show by Jennifer Summerfield “Don’t leave it to the men to write my...
Photography by Courtney Fox

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

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Photography by Courtney Fox   What sweeter balm than nature to soothe the lonely soul? In this poem, Wordsworth gives his readers a Romantic description of...