Literary Dark Device
Article by S. Dorman Tevildo Prince of Cats was the first imaginative incarnation of Sauron the Dark Lord, whose power was destroyed in the unmaking of his Ring in the Third Age of Middle-earth. As many know, the process of writing is drafting and redrafting, a sort of making and remaking. An early incarnation of…
“Kubla Khan” and Father Nicholas Christmas?
Article by David Llewellyn Dodds In 1927, John Livingston Lowes published The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination with a revised edition following in 1930. He traces the “caves of ice” in Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” (lines 36, 47) to William Bartram’s Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and…
THE MUSE
This article is by J. Conrad Matthews My wife and daughter asked me to watch a comedian on a talent competition. I needed a break from writing anyway. This was a good opportunity to convince my family was I a person and not part of the furniture that occasionally haunted the kitchen. I missed them a…