Tag: Poetry
Coleridge and the case of the "Kubla Khan" dream vision
ย On the dream vision of Samuel T. Coleridge and the composition of "Kubla Khan", a poem left unfinished due to the sudden visit of the mysterious "person from Porlock": an illustrative literary case oflla "other" nature of the poetic inspiration on which, among others, Jorge Luis Borges and Fernando Pessoa have written.
HP Lovecraft: "Poetry and the Gods"
Written in collaboration with Anna H. Crofts, "Poetry and the Gods" (1920) combines the Lovecraftian ideal of the Poetic Imagination with romantic devotion to the ancient Gods.
Charles Baudelaire: life, work, genius
The biography of Baudelaire written by his friend Charles Asselineau is a golden opportunity to get to know the Poet in his most intimate self, the dedication to his 'activitas', the yearning to marry life with thought, in the amazing union of action. and dream
Mircea Eliade: "The myths of the modern world"
In the first chapter of his studyย Myths, dreams and mysteries (published in 1957), the Romanian historian of religions Mircea Eliade deals with the question of the survival of the Myth, more or less "disguised", in the modern world. The question from which his analysis starts is the following: "What have myths become in modern societies?" Or rather: what occupied the essential place that myth had in traditional societies?ยป.ย With these premises, Eliade therefore investigates the function of mythical thought in the twentieth century, analyzing in the first place the different types of eschatology underlying the political myths of our time: the "communist myth" and the "national socialist" one.
