By: JD DeHart The days of superheroes in comic books are far from over, judging from the popular films that are being released en masse, but longer comic book works called graphic novels […]
The Strange World of Graphic Novels
Lunchtime Lucifer
By: Mark Antony Rossi Tico told me the world would be a better if more people ate a big lunch. He theorized the sleepiness that befell a full belly made the average person […]
Review: The Divine Mimesis
By: Thomas Sanfilip It’s a short walk from Rome’s Stazione Centrale to the Museo Nazionale Romano where some of the greatest archaeological collections reside of Roman and Greek sculpture discovered in the […]
The Man-Machine and Living-Death: A Poetic Critique of D.H. Lawrence
By: Robert Yee Throughout his literary career, David Herbert (D.H.) Lawrence wrote plays, novels, letters, and poems that elaborated upon his personal beliefs about society and opinions concerning his outlook on life. […]
Review: Nameless by Sana Rafiq-Mitchell
By: Ali Znaidi Sana Rafiq-Mitchell opens her collection with “If poetry is an eruption volcanic”. This may be the gist or the manifesto of the book. Nomenclature is important because mortality is […]
How The Romantic Poets Gave Nature its Soul!
Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry (1757) brought the sublime closer to experiences of awe, terror and danger. In Burke’s opinion, nature is the most sublime object, capable of generating the strongest sensations in […]
In ‘Fern Hill’ Dylan Thomas recreates Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience
Dylan Thomas seems to be influenced by William Blake for his autobiographical poem Fern Hill where he puts his own life into poetic perspective and describes the personal evolution from innocence to experience. Fern […]
A criticism book Rhapsodies and Musings set for launch
Literary Yard has received the following press note about ‘Rhapsodies and Musings’ to be formally launched on 25 July, 2015. It is a literary criticism book that is expected to give more […]
Calls of Romance in Coleridge’s Kubla Khan
ST Coleridge is one of the few poets who I admire most – not because of his a couple of poems but because of his life-like dedication to create a whole new […]
Literary Theory Demystified
Literary Theory and literary terms have always troubled the literary students all over the world. Nonetheless they are interesting and, once understood, help you to read literature. You get to know multiple things about […]
