The title of Paradise Episode 5 is taken from a line in Darkness, the hauntingly beautiful Lord Byron poem that bookends this ...

Gothic is a psychosexual thriller that gives audiences an insight into the events surrounding Frankenstein ’s invention and ...

Rufus Wainwright opened up on TalkShopLive about the unique Dream Requiem project, answered fans’ real-time questions about ...

The Canadian-American musician joins Q’s Tom Power over Zoom to discuss his new album, Dream Requiem, narrated by Meryl ...

Any stories we tell about the end of the world will have to be fictional, since once the real thing occurs, no one will be ...

Albeit a solo work requiring a soprano, conductor, 220 classical musicians and choral singers, and based on Lord Byron’s 1816 end-of-days poem Darkness, as well as on the Latin Mass for the Dead ...

Lord Byron wrote the poem “Darkness,” envisioning a sunless Earth that becomes “a lump of death.” Compared with the heavenly bliss promised at the end of Revelation, Byron’s godless ...

He attributes the first works of “secular eschatology” to Lord Byron—who wrote a poem about the forlorn end of the world called “Darkness,” and Mary Shelley, whose 1826 novel The Last ...

Earth is the focus of this week’s Paradise, an hour that also sees Xavier officially go rogue. We’ve got a lot of poor-little ...

This is a requiem mass for our times – and there is much to lament – inspired by Verdi’s Requiem but also spliced with suitably authoritative readings by Meryl Streep of Lord Byron’s poem ...

Lynskey, whose range is impressively ecumenical, tells us that secular eschatology properly began in the early nineteenth century with the publication of Lord Byron’s poem “Darkness.” ...

"What statue of Lord Byron?" you might wonder. The likeness of the poet is not exactly London's most prominent work of art. It languishes on a traffic island at the southern end of Park Lane.