Monthly Archives: June 2017

The Evolution of The Mummy!

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Suzanne Burdon

As another Mummy movie hits the big screen it is interesting to look back at the first iteration of the genre. The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is an 1827 novel written by a 20 year old … Continue reading →

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Protest, Poetry & Song

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Suzanne Burdon

As Bob Dylan has finally accepted his Nobel Prize, (though not yet given his Nobel performance) I was reminded of the essay In Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley, in which he claimed that: “poets are the unacknowledged legislators … Continue reading →

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