Vinculus

While reading an essay in Spanish, I came across an interesting word, "Vinculo" (except it has an accent on the i). Having no idea what it meant, and seeing the familiarity between the word and the name in the story, I looked it up. The word in Spanish means "link or bond." Very fitting.

Special Guest

Because our class seems to love JS&MN so much, I have decided to bring my friend George Gordon to class next week. He's really excited about visiting!

Manfred

I particularly love Lord Byron's role in JS&MN and wanted to link everyone to the text.

www.litgothic.com says... "Byron undertook "Manfred," his most Gothic work, in late 1816, a few months after the famed ghost-story sessions which provided the initial impetus for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and John Polidori's The Vampyre, which some argue is based on Byron's fragment of a novel, his brief response to the challenge of the ghost-story sessions. Byron also heard Goethe's Faust about this time, and "Manfred" may also owe something to Matthew Lewis, author of The Monk, who visited Byron a month or two before "Manfred" was begun. The poem was completed in April of 1817 and published in June of that year. "

To read the poem, visit http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/manfred.html.