What is Milton’s companion work to “L’Allegro”?
“II Penseroso,” written in 1632 is Milton’s companion work to “L’Allegro”.
“II Penseroso,” written in 1632 is Milton’s companion work to “L’Allegro”.
Hamartia is the fatal flaw that brings a good character to ruin. Hubris is pride, the classic example of hamartia.
Judas received thirty pieces of silver for betraying Christ. In Matthew’s Gospel, Judas throws away the money and hangs himself after the betrayal.
Jessie L. Weston’s From Ritual to Romance (1920) was the book about the Holy Grail quest that T. S. Eliot drew upon in his poem, The Waste Land.
William Blake wrote “O rose, thou art sick” in “The Sick Rose” (1794).
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde didn’t exist, but there was a Scottish cabinetmaker named William Brodie who inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s story. Brodie, a respected businessman by day, wore a mask and led a gang of robbers by night. Born in 1741, Brodie was hanged in 1788. The story interested Stevenson and inspired The Strange…
The alternative title to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was The Modern Prometheus.