Archive - Substack-ships On Fire, Off The Shoulder Of Orion

June 2025

Heinrich Heine, ‘Der Hirtenknabe’ (1827)

Considering how this poem rules

Jun 29 •

Auden ‘The Fall of Rome’

Fall of "rhyme", more like

Jun 27 •

Under Mirk Wood

Dyl(an) “M” for Mordor

Jun 26 •

“Zahuris, Red of Eye ...”

Coleridge and a Curious Folk

Jun 21 •

Tenniel's second Jabberwock

Jun 17 •

Through the Looking-Glass and What Apuleius Found There

Jun 15 •

Victor Hugo’s ‘La Captive’ (1829)

Some originary Orientalism

Jun 11 •

Arnold’s ‘Resignation: to Fausta’ (1849)

Resign yourself to a very lengthy deep-dive into this lesser-known Arnold poem

Jun 7 •

‘The Sea Had Soaked His Heart Through’

Jun 3 •

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