Byron and Wilde enthusiast says hullo.
To begin at the beginning as Byron says. I managed to scrape one A Level in literature and flirted my way into University, and once there I became quite at home. I have gone slightly mad in a Neil Gaiman sort of way because I spent the best part of four years living in a welsh cottage with nothing but books, a parakeet, and a ferret for company. I love the Nineteenth century as it is surely the richest and most diverse for literature. I am a committed Byronist (currently doing my MA dissertation on Lord B and Wilde) and Romanticist in terms of academic study, but I also love the fin de siècle and French influence towards the end of the century, Huysman’s Au Rebours may just be my favourite novel. I also love poetry, especially Baudelaire, but mainly my tastes are very much rooted in the twentieth century. I have a particular passion for Ted Hughes as his poetry forms its own dark vein of English folk horror. I have just finished his Gaudete which transfixed me. I look forward to meeting fellow bibliophiles. And if you recognise my signature, we really ought to be friends.
