The Ghost Monk"St Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;
The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass,
And silent was the flock in woolly fold."
- Keats, 'The Eve Of St Agnes'
#BookWormSat #romanticpoets #poetry
[Photo by me of snowy wales]
"It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration;"
- Wordsworth
#BookWormSat #poetry #RomanticPoets #poetrysky
"The tempestuous loveliness of terror."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Jonathan Rigby uses this in his 'English Gothic' so I don't know the #poem. Good though, isn't it? And not a bad reminder that it's #PhantomsFriday tomorrow: so please join in the feed with some #ghost posts.
#Gothic #RomanticPoets
"Away, away! to thy sad and silent home;
Pour bitter tears on its desolated hearth;
Watch the dim shades as like ghosts they go and come,
And complicate strange webs of melancholy mirth."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#BookWormSat #poetrysky #romanticpoets #Shelley
Tales from the Penny Bloods'Born for Opposition'
Remembering Lord Byron: Poet, Philhellene, and Advocate for Independence
our latest post on the Penny Bloods Blog - check it out!
#lordbyron #dotd #commemoration #independence #romanticpoets
Remembering Lord Byron: Poet, Philhellene, and Advocate for Independence
On this day, April 19th, Lord Byron passed away in a coma at Missolonghi, brought on by a fever, and disastrous blood-letting from his physicians. The last complete verses of Don Juan had been published to withering reviews from the Literary Gazette ; he was an exile, the notorious mad, bad boy of Georgian society, alone and lonely, yet worshipped as revolutionary hero in Greece. ‘Born for Opposition’ (Early Life and Literary Career): Born George Gordon Byron on January 22, 1788, in London, En
FID Anglo-American CultureNew book in our collection: this essay collection on #WalterPater & the Beginnings of #EnglishStudies analyses Pater's views on Montaigne, #Shakespeare, the #RomanticPoets, #Morris & #Rossetti & more!
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1851642005
Inkwells&Curtains... was he psychic? a sensitive? Mad, as some of his contemporaries suggested? Or just highly imaginative? We'll be looking at William Blake, his visions, and his influence, in the Inkwells & Curtains lounge.
Join us as we ramble and rant, and look things up...
https://youtu.be/OxraOMuIUGY
Tyger Tyger read by Jonathan Brandt of https://www.youtube.com/@jonathanbrandt3716/videos
#williamblake #romantics #romanticpoets #tygertyger #visionary #visionaryartist
William Blake Part 1: Visions & Monsters
Holland House BooksBorn on this day: William Blake (1757 – 1827)
"Do what you will, this world’s a fiction and is made up of contradiction."
Visionary, artist, poet, Blake was revered by the Pre-Raphaelites, and considered a major influence on 20th century culture.
Happy Birthday, William!
#williamblake #romanticpoets #romanticism #visionary #bornonthisday #literarybirthdays
Steven CahnWhen sit down and think about your interests, it's nice to be surprised by how many there are. #followbackfriday #followfriday #wardruna #animism #romanticpoets #williamblake #yeats #nativeplants And I used to dig #politics but they are so fraught now.