Featured Artwork – The Ball, by James Tissot
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View ArticleFeatured Artwork: Die Siickerin, by Franz Xaver Simm
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View ArticleFeatured Artwork: Girl Making a Bouquet of Flowers, by Augustus Leopold Egg
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View ArticleFeatured Artwork: In the Theatre Box, by Franz Xavier Simm
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View ArticleBrief thoughts halfway through Mansfield Park
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View ArticleAnne Bronte
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View ArticlePacific Northwest Ballet, All Wheeldon
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View ArticleAnnotation: Hawthorne & Eglantine, Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale
White hawthorn and the pastoral eglantine These two wildflowers seem to have little in common except blossoming during Spring and being part of the rose family but let’s take a closer look… Hawthorn...
View ArticleAnnotation: Violets & Musk-Rose, Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale
Fast-fading violets cover’d up in leaves; And mid-May’s eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine Musk Rose, Photo © Stefi Musk Rose Flower meaning: Whimsical beauty or charming Has a musky...
View ArticleLines 61-80, Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!10No hungry generations tread thee down;10The voice I hear this passing night was heard10In ancient days by emperor and clown:10Perhaps the selfsame song...
View ArticleAnnotation: Ruth, Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale
Perhaps the selfsame song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; Naomi entreating Ruth and Oprah to return to the land of Moab, by...
View ArticlePaintings inspired by Keats’ Poems
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View ArticleJoseph Severn’s Paintings of Keats
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View ArticleKeats: Wentworth Place
Inspiration can be anywhere: at a little coffee shop, in the park down the road, in your kitchen. Maybe sometimes it’s harder to tune into. While at other places it’s bursting like near the ocean or...
View ArticleKeats in May, a Blog Tour
Join us today as we celebrate the works of Romantic poet John Keats. Poem: Lamia Author Kimberley Truesdale writes on Exploring the Dilemma in Keats’ Lamia @playsthetart “Lamia is a strange beast....
View ArticleStarting Emily Bronte’s Poems
Emily Bronte. Tempestuous; passionate, wild. Her emotional nature seems the perfect making of a poet. I have a beautiful Everyman Library Pocket Poets edition which I opened yesterday. I was in a...
View ArticlePoetry must be Heard
When I’m reading a poem for the first time it usually takes the first two stanzas for either my pulse to quicken and I slow down to absorb the poem or nothing happens and I continue reading hoping I’ll...
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