lenore (Lenore) is a cursed poem by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), originally published in the February 1843 edition, and later republished in the 1845 anthology: The Raven and Other Poems. . It would finally reappear in the 1850 collection: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe. By lenore, one of Edgar Allan Poe’s best poems, received ...

If a murder occurs at the beginning of a story, it could quickly be classified as a police story or a detective story; But when the crime is consummated in the twilight of history, the matter becomes more complicated for the compilers. This anthology brings together 14 stories of meticulously planned and completed murders: The Black Cap: New Stories Of ...

“Do you wish to be loved?”: poem by Edgar Allan Poe dedicated to Fanny Osgood. Do you want to be loved? (Wouldn’t You Be Loved?) is a cursed poem by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), composed in 1845. The original name of the poem is actually: To Frances S. Osgoodand is dedicated precisely to this enigmatic and popular ...

Brevity, synthesis, narrative sobriety are not virtues typical of Gothic literature, and even less so of Gothic stories, usually bombastic, exaggerated, overflowing with imagination. In this 2002 horror anthology: Great short gothic stories (Gothic Short Stories), some notable examples of brevity in the Gothic story are grouped together; always within its structure and dense, suffocating atmospheres, as if the reader ...

“When the still voices die”: Percy Bysshe Shelley; poem and analysis. When the soft voices die (When Soft Voices Die) —whose full title is: Music: when the soft voices die (Music, When Soft Voices Die)—is a romantic poem by the English writer Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), composed in 1821 and published in the 1824 anthology: Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe ...

Husbands on the run! Oral reviews of Professor Lugano. Runaway Husbands: The Abandoned Wife’s Guide to Recovery and Renewal is a psychology and self-help book by researcher Vikki Stark, published in 2010. “The book disturbed me deeply,” Professor Lugano said in a round of sausages, “less because of its content than because of the use of the word “abandoned.” What ...

Cassandra was the daughter of Hecuba and Priam, king of Troy. Her beauty was so dazzling that Apollo, the sun god, offered to give her the gift of prophecy if she became his lover. Kassandra agreed, tempted to learn her future, but when Apollo tried to collect the reward from her she refused to fulfill her part of the deal. ...

Using all the power available to him, could Gandalf defeat Sauron in a direct confrontation? Without the Ring, hardly. Gandalf himself certainly does not believe it possible: The one making this statement is Gandalf the White, who had possibly experienced an “improvement” in his powers. It seems unlikely that Gandalf the Gray would have been more confident; in fact, he ...

“The Broken Heart”: John Donne; poem and analysis. The Broken Heart is a metaphysical love poem by the English writer John Donne (1572-1631), published in the 1633 anthology: Poems. The Broken Heart, one of John Donne’s most notable poems, declares that any man who believes he has loved for an hour is crazy, not because love can degrade in such ...

No Dream Dictionary can do without them: birds, winged creatures that offer such a wide and varied range of interpretations that it is almost impossible to be fair with them. The main problem in understanding the meaning of dreams about birds comes, in part, from a language disagreement. In his capital work: The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung), Sigmund Freud ...