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Thoughts for College Dropouts: Love, Part II

O'Brien Browne | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Togetherness, Women, Relationships, Hope, Romance, Men, Lord Byron, Love, Healthy Living News
O'Brien Browne

This is Part II of "Love," started on the 8th of last month. I didn't plan on a Part II because I thought this little blog should be pointed and pithy...

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V Is for Vampire

Varla Ventura | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Frankenstein, John William Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Vampires, Weird News News
Varla Ventura

I had no idea what I had stumbled upon when I began reading The Vampyre, initially attracted only by its title.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley "On Life"

Carolyn Vega | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Manuscripts, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poets, The Morgan Library & Museum, Romanticism, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, Shelley Papers, Shelley on Life, New York News
Carolyn Vega

2012-01-09-pullquote.jpgThis essay, which is considered one of his most important prose works, was first penned sometime in late 1819 in the back of a small vellum-bound notebook.

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Are We More Permissive With Cheating Men Than Women?

Elizabeth Abbott | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Gigolo, Mistressdom, Elizabeth Abbott, Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman, Mistresses, Marriage Infidelity, Cavalier Servente, Infidelity, Misters, Marriage, A History of Marriage, Cheating, Misterdom, Lord Byron, Extra-Marital Affairs, DNA Paternity Testing, Paternity Fraud, Divorce News
Elizabeth Abbott

The double standard that inspired and facilitated Mistressdom is an impenetrable block to a parallel institution of Misterdom.

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Why Women Should Take Lovers

Elizabeth Abbott | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Marriage, Byron, Duchess of Devonshire, Sexual Double Standard, Teresa Guiccioli, Bess Foster, 18th Century Italy, 18th Century England, Mistresses, Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman, Charles Grey, Arranged Marriages, Lord Byron, Cavalier Servente, Georgiana, Divorce News
Elizabeth Abbott

In the 21st century, egalitarianism reigns -- or does it? Why, if a husband can have a mistress, can his wife not have a mister? Not just a "piece on the side," certainly not a gigolo, but a man with whom she shares a long-term, extramarital romantic and sexual relationship?

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Charlie Sheen, Poet

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Edgar Allan Me, Charlie Sheet Poet, Judith Regan, Charlie Sheen Poetry, Winning, Tiger Blood, Lord Byron, Healthy Living News
John Lundberg

The interest in Charlie Sheen's otherworldly behavior has reached such a level that someone thinks she can make money off his poetry.

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Poetic Viagra: Emily Dickinson's Friskiest Poems

Stephanie Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Valentine's Day, Emily Dickinson, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Books News
Stephanie Green

Here are some classic examples of Miss Dickinson's naughty but nice verses. Caution: Do not try reading these at home alone.

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The Ten Best Love Poems Ever Written In Honor Of Valentine's Day 2011

James Scarborough | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Henri Rousseau, Jennifer Reeves, W.H. Auden, Lisa Adams, Cristina Barroso, Paul Gauguin, Gustav Klimt, Joan Miro, Stephen Vincent Benet, Robinson Jeffers, Andre Breton, Pablo Neruda, Jan Van Eyck, A.E. Housman, Georges Seurat, Slidepollajax, Theodore Roethke, E.E. Cummings, Amedeo Modigliani, Lord Byron, William Butler Yeats, Arts News
James Scarborough

Mindful of Paul Valery's painfully true contention that "Love is being stupid together," how about ten poems and ten paintings that celebrate the art of being stupid together? Come on, just this once.

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"The Only Way To Get Rid Of A Temptation Is To Yield To It"

flavorwire.com | Kathleen Massara | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Quotes, Pablo Neruda, Oscar Wilde, Lolita, Sex, John Keats, Literature Quotes, Don Juan, Lord Byron, Getting Laid, Literary Quotes, Seduction, Books News

Wooing is hard work. Inevitably all of us will be crushed by disappointment from time to time when a chosen paramour rejects us with a single, cutting...

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PHOTOS: 5 Classic Journeys To Take Yourself

Black Tomato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, California, Australia, Namibia, Africa, Dunhill, Slidepollajax, Tanzania, Journey, Asia, Lord Byron, Mongolia, Paris, Travel News
Black Tomato

Here at Black Tomato we've coined the phrase 'slowtopia travel' for the trips that remove you far from the immediacy of the modern world. We like to t...

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Who Says Jane Austen Was a Popular Novelist?

Lev Raphael | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Books News, Jodi Picoult, Jane Austen, Books, Sir Walter Scott, New York Times, Charles Dickens, Book Sales, Shakespeare, London, Poetry, Lord Byron, Books News
Lev Raphael

Given Jane Austen's ubiquity, and the fact that anything with her name on it will sell, you might think she's always been a sensation. But you'd be wrong.

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Lady Gaga, Tiger Woods, Andy Warhol

Bloomberg | Mark Beech | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Historical Book, History of Celebrity, Author, Driney Spears, Fred Inglis Book, Madonna, JP Morgan, Tiger Woods, Lord Byron, Andy Warhol, Richard Gere, Lady GaGa, Joshua Reynolds, Fred Inglis, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, Celebrity, Book, Books News

Celebrity painters such as Andy Warhol are the heirs of Joshua Reynolds; Tiger Woods and Richard Gere follow Lord Byron. This is the view of writer Fr...

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'A Short History of Celebrity' Review: Why Do We Love Famous People?

The Wall Street Journal | Darrin M. McMahon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A Short History of Celebrity, Fame, Entertainment Tonight, Books, Fred Inglis, Celebrity, Reading, Lord Byron, Book Review, Books News

The late anthropologist Clifford Geertz famously defined culture as an "ensemble of stories we tell about ourselves." By that reckoning, the tales of ...

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Hot And Dead: Vampires Before 'Twilight'

Los Angeles Times | Michael Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Vampires, Eclipse, Dracula, Writing, Twilight, Books, Stephenie Meyer, Reading, Lord Byron, Books News

Vampire stories didn't begin with Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series, Anne Rice's bayou bloodsuckers or even Bram Stoker's "Dracula" in 1897. What on...

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Nabokov vs. Hemingway, Byron vs. Keats, Bronte vs. Austen: The 50 Best Best Author vs. Author Disses Of All Time

Examiner | Michelle Kerns | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hemingway, Authors, Nabokov, Author Disses, Jane Austen, Books, Charlotte Bronte, John Keats, Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Books News

Yes, hell hath no fury like one author gleefully savaging another author's work. And, lucky for us, there's plenty to be had where that came from. ...

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Vampire Stories, Behind The Bite

Meg Cabot | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gender Stereotypes, Buffy, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Vampires, Gender Relations, Books, Vampire Stories, Books News
Meg Cabot

It's fun to fantasize about being whisked away and supported by someone rich and sexy. But under the glamor and the sex appeal, he's still a blood-sucking demon.

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Five Things You Didn't Know About The Romantics: The Diets, Crushes, And Nicknames Of Keats, Shelley, Byron And Others

More Intelligent Life | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poets, Authors, The Romantics, Romance Poets, John Keats, Mary Wollstonecraft, Books, Young Romantics, Shelley, Lord Byron, Books News

Daisy Hay's new book "Young Romantics" explores the intertwining lives of Shelley, Byron, Keats and their cohort, detailing "a web of lives, within wh...

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Steamy Letters By Lord Byron Up For Auction

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Poetic Life, Letters, Lord Byron Auction, Poet, Auction, Lady Caroline Lamb, Poetry, Lord Byron, Reverend Francis Hodgson, John Lundberg, Healthy Living News
John Lundberg

Sotheby's expert Gabriel Heaton gave us a hint of their contents, telling the British newspaper The Guardian that "Byron clearly enjoyed writing slightly outrageous things to a clergyman..."

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8 Gateways To Greater Happiness

Anne Naylor | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Connecting, Forgiving, Anne Frank, Fun, Talent, Thanksgiving, William Blake, Happiness, Joy, Buddha, Lily Day, Aristotle, Service, Gifts, Lord Byron, Ben Franklin, Gratitude, Healthy Living News
Anne Naylor

Happiness grows from a state of mind -- a perspective about life and your engagement with it, and the actions you take to support your happiness.

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Vampires: Why Here, Why Now?

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Count Chocula, The Vampire Diaries, Dark Shadows, Bela Lugosi, Syracuse University, Random House, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Charlaine Harris, Hammer Films, Colin Farrell, Sesame Steet, Nicolas Cage. Con Air, Interview With a Vampire, Wheaties Breakfast of Champions, Lord Byron, Stephanie Meyer, Anne Rice, Lady Caroline Lamb, The CW Network, Tracey Bateman, Bram Stoker, The Vampyre, Twilight, Charlie Huston, General Mills, Drew Silver, The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vampires, WaterBrook Publishers, Rosemary Laurey, Robert Thompson, True Blood, Tanya Huff, John Polidori, Bill Compton, Nosferatu, Sookie, Entertainment News
Tom Alderman

If fiction often reflects a nation's culture, why, oh-why-oh, do we have so many vampires, in so many places, sucking up so many entertainment dollars with such blazing success today?

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Beethoven and Lord Byron Need Carrie Bradshaw to Live On

Samara O'Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oscar Wilde, Love Letters, Sex and the City: The Movie, Beethoven, Anias Nin, Carrie Bradshaw, Ronald Regan, John Keats, Napoleon, Letter Writing Books, Hennry Miller, Lord Byron, Mozart, Style News
Samara O'Shea

On November 25th St. Martins Press will release a book that has already been published--from my quick count--at least five times. The sixth has the Carrie Bradshaw seal of approval.

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