Romanticism & The Lake District: The Contradictions of Modern Life
By Lewis Waller After the first travel guide to Britain was published in 1772, Thomas West, a Scottish Jesuit, published his own guide to the…
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At Shelley’s Grave: The Ineffable Calico Cat at il Cimitero Straniero
So I said, most impractically, to the obliging calico cat with yellow eyes, as we turned to depart the old Protestant Cemetery, that walled oasis of g…
That Black, Dragon-Haunted Pass: The Mystery of Lermontov’s Caucasus
By Tara Isabella Burton “I was traveling along the military road back from Tiflis.” So begins Mikhail Lermontov’s 1833 A Hero of Our Time, the…
John Keats and the Casina Rosa
The "Casina Rossa" or "Little Red House" sits next to the Spanish Steps in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome. An unprepossessing building built in 1725, it…
Lord Byron’s Castle Chillon
Lord Byron’s set made it famous and it’s still a sight to see. Surveying Castle Chillon, an exquisite jewel that seems to float on the…