6th Baron Byron

Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace Ada Byron, born Augustus Ada Byron in London, England in 1815. Her parents were Anne Isabella Milbanke and the famous Lord Byron. Ada father left Britain leaving her mother and her alone when Ada was just one month old. Ada never saw her father again and she never got to know him. Fearing that Ada would become like her father whose personality was a bit unstable; Anne saw that Ada received the best education using her aristocratic advantages to see that she excelled in science and mathematics. With a peculiar relationship with her mother, servants and her tutors entertained her more than a parental figure. Some of her tutors were very pivotal in her life that they remained in contact even after they had completed tutoring her. Her life changed forever when she met Mary Somerville and Charles…

Lord Byron was one of the greatest poets in the history of England. He broadened the horizons of literature in Britain and pushed the limits of what poets could include in their writing. Without Byron’s leadership, poetry may not have become what it did throughout the nineteenth century in England. However, Byron was interesting beyond his poems, his short but full life, the time period in which he was alive and his works were all things that are relevant in discovering Lord Byron as a man and…

“Workshop of filthy creation”: Muddled gender and bad art in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Taryn MacKinney ENGL-102.001, Monsters in Film in Literature Fall 2015, Professor Yang In her book Monstrous Imagination, Huet outlines two phases in literary history. In the first, mothers were believed capable of creating monstrous progeny from imagination – or more appropriately, from a skill-less mimicry of reality. In the second, Romantic writers redefined imagination as a “masculine attribute”…

The Romantics were obsessed with the natural world. Nature to them acted as a spiritual spring, an eternal source of inspiration from which they drew to motivate their writing. Likewise, Shelley’s Frankenstein shows a fascination of nature characteristic of the Romantic Era. However, Frankenstein’s secondary themes also include the progression of science and technology, as well as exploration and discovery. Shelly unites these two themes with the concept of awe. As Victor Frankenstein…

that his wife has been caught with another man. The play then shifts to the present day, where a writer, Hannah, meets Bernard, a literary critic. Bernard is in search of what happened to Ezra Chater, who wrote “The Couch of Eros,” while Hannah is studying the hermit of Sidley Park, who is a character unknown. As Hannah and Bernard, along with a graduate student, Valentine, accumulate journals and notes from the characters in the past, Bernard believes that Lord Byron shot and killed Chater. The…

Romanticism is a movement in the arts and literature that emphasizes inspiration and the primacy of an individual. Romanticism in literature originated in Germany, with famous writers Johann Wolfgang and Samuel Taylor, and quickly spread to America around the 1800 's, after English poetry was revolutionized. Romantics often explore faraway places of medieval folklore and legends in their writings. Mary Shelley learned from the experts, using some concepts from her background and tied it into…

“Dover Beach”: In his “Dover Beach,” Matthew Arnold employs images related to the ocean to establish a theme relating to the cyclical nature of human life. Specifically, he refers to the continuation of misery throughout an individual’s life. This allusion to cycles is supported throughout the poem through the use of tidal imagery. For example, he refers to the French coast and how “the light gleams and is gone” (3-4) This is significant as light often works as a symbol of hope. Therefore, this…

In 1818, Mary Shelley personified the shortcomings of society’s morality in the form of a destructive, ruthless, yet nearly human monster. During an era in which the Industrial Revolution saw the prosperity of the upper class directly lead to the death and poverty of the working class, Shelley wrote Frankenstein to challenge the presence of cultural inhumanity. Shelley’s novel chronicles the life of scientist Victor Frankenstein, whose studies and ambition lead to the creation of a living being…

The Romantic period was one of important periods, Romantic poems have amazing view for the nature and landscape, we also can use term Romanticism to describe particular period, Romantic or Romanticism start in late 1700s to 1820s , the France revolution and the great Napoleonic wars help to forming the Romantic, the most famous and important poets of Romanticism are Percy Bysshe Shelley( the young poet), Thomas DE Quincey and William Wordsworth , according to Ross, he sees that the Romantic…

From blockbuster Hollywood movies to parodies on the internet, the creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is commonly portrayed as a “monster”, but is this accusation really true? The creator of the creature, Victor Frankenstein may have more in common with the “monster” than previously thought. Through careful evaluation, we can see the many similarities and differences between the two main characters in the story. In Frankenstein, the similarities between the creature and its creator,…