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George Howland Beaumont’s 'Peele Castle in a Storm', which inspired Wordsworth's 'Elegiac Stanzas' (1807)

#Gothic #Romanticism

'whether we be young or old,
Our destiny, our being's heart and home,
Is with infinitude, and only there;
With hope it is, hope that can never die,
Effort, and expectation, and desire,
And something evermore about to be'

William Wordsworth, The Prelude (1850)

'The freshness of the face, and the wetness of the lips with blood, are the never-failing signs of a Vampire. The stories told in Hungary and Greece of these foul feeders are singular, and some of them most incredibly attested'

Lord Byron's Note to The Giaour (1813)