Tag Archives: Byron

SOMEWHERE DOWN THE CRAZY RIVER

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Dave

Is there such a thing as the world’s worst animals. From a safe distance we can regard the malevolent animals of the Amazon as a biological miracle and not a flesh eating pestilential horror. In any event, the creatures; flying, … Continue reading →

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REGAL MORTGAGE CRISIS: Princely Bling

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Dave

This is the era of the Napoleonic Wars, of the Battle of Waterloo and the Battle of Trafalgar, and the Duke of Wellington and Admiral Nelson. The waltz was a scandalous new dance craze, and stylish women cropped their hair … Continue reading →

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A NORTHERN WIZARD: Writing For Love, Money & “The Great Unknowns”

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Dave

Like Dickens and Balzac, he wrote because he could not help writing, but he did not think that the chief business of life was to be put into literature; and much as he appreciated his contemporary fame, he does not appear to have cared … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Andrew Lang, Asha Sahni, Augustine Birrell, Byron, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Coleman O. Parsons, David Wilkie, Dickens, Edgar Johnson, Emily Bronte, Eugene Delacroix, Frank R. Shaw, George Cruickshank, George Eliot, Henry James, Honore de Balzac, Ian Ousby, James Fenimore Cooper, James Heath, James Saxon, Jane Austen, John Gibson Lockhart, Lockhart, Marie Fletcher, Philip Coppens, Philip V. Allingham, Robert Cadell, Samuel Johnson, Sir David Wilkie, Sir John Watson Gordon, Sir Walter Scott, Susan Keeping, T.S. Eliot, Thackeray, William Hazlitt | Leave a comment

AVOIDING THOSE PERIPHERAL REGIONS OF ROMANCE

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Dave

Call it a poetic faith whose satisfying sense of wonder compelled them to stop short of that marvellous and enticing flame of Promethean enchantment. Heros zigzagging with tolerable chance. “…in the preface to Tom Jones , Fielding formally asserted his belief … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Brian McCrea, Byron, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, Coleridge, Fanny Burney, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Henry Fuseli, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Flaxman, John Trusler, Larry Laban, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Peter Jan de Voogd, Rev. John Trusler, Richard Hurd, Richard Nordquist, Robin Bates, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Fielding, Shakespeare, Simon Stein, Simon Varey, Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray, Thomas R. Cleary, Tobias Smollet, William Hazlitt, William Hogarth, William Makepiece Thackeray | Leave a comment

ONCE UPON A TIME…

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Dave

Napoleon’s armies overran Germany….”but not only did we seek something of consolation in the past, our hope, naturally, was that this course of ours should contribute somewhat to the return of a better day.” While “foreign persons, foreign manners, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arthur Rackham, Byron, Clemens Brentano, Coleridge, Donald Haase, Edmund Dulac, Friedrich Schiller, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Gustaf Tenggren, Gustaf Tengren, Gustav Mahler, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Jane Yolen, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Jacobs, Ludwig Achim von Arnim, Marianne Stokes, Narianne Stokes, Novalis, Peter Webb, Philipp Grot johann, Richard Cleasby, Robert Leinweber, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, Theodor Benfey, W.H. Auden, Wilhelm Grimm, William Wordsworth | Leave a comment

GRIMM TERRORS: PASSION FOR THE PRIMITIVE

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Dave

“The consonants of primitive Germanic keep consistently to the same mouth areas as the corresponding consonants in the older Indo-European languages”. So said the Brothers Grimm in stating their famous law for linguists. Dull fellows? Hardly. Their terrifying tales have … Continue reading →

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SPIRIT WORLD: Talking With a Famished Lion About Poetry

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Dave

The French painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) pursued an ideal in his quest to capture a spirit of innocence. While still very much rooted in French city life, and for many-years a conventional man, he nevertheless projected images of an exotic … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Adrian Searle, Alfred Jarry, Alice B. Toklas, Andre Derain, Arnie Greenberg, Arnold Hauser, Arsene Alexandre, Byron, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Green, Cornelia Stabenow, Dennis Walder, Eugene Delacroix, Felix Auguste-Clement, Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gustave Flaubert, Henri Matisse, Henri Rousseau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jill Fell, K. Kimberly King, Marie Laurencin, Max Weber, Nancy Ireson, Nancy Pinard, Pablo Picasso, Pam Rosenthal, Redon, Richard Jinman, Richard Powers, Robert Hughes, Roger Shattuck, Wilhelm Uhde | Leave a comment

ROCK HIS GYPSY SOUL: THE STORMY “CORINTHIAN”

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Dave

“There’s no one more punctual than a woman one doesn’t love” ( “Kean” by Jean Paul Sartre ) From its declining fortunes Drury Lane Theatre was to be rescued, briefly, by the arrival of Edmund Kean, the most fiery and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Adrian Noble, Alan Badel, Alexandre Dumas, Antony Sher, Ben Kingsley, Byron, Catharine Savage Brosman, Charles Kean, Charles Kremble, Coleridge, Derek Jacobi, Edmund Kean, Ermette Novelli, George Clint, George Cruickshank, Graham Everett, Harold Bloom, Jane Austen, Jean Paul Belmondo, Jean Paul Sartre, John Keats, John Philip Kemble, John Stone, Jonathan Mulrooney, Lord Byron, Lucius Junius Booth, Percy Shelley, Pierre Brasseur, Robert Cruickshank, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Siddons, Théaulon, William Hazlitt, William Macready | Leave a comment

ANARCHY OF THE PASSIONS: BEAUTY OF OPPOSITES

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Dave

Edmund Kean (1790-1833) was acclaimed as the greatest actor of his time. Something of a prodigy, while still a teenager he gave a command performance for King George III at Windsor Castle. Coleridge said that watching Kean perform “was like … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Barry Cornwall, Ben Kingsley, Bennett Cooperman, Byron, Charlotte Tidswell, Coleridge, Edgar Mels, Edmund Kean, Eli Siegel, Frederick William Hawkins, Giles Playfair, Henry Carey, Howard Hillebrand, Isaac Newton, J.F. Malley, Jean Paul Sartre, John Keats, John William Gear, Joseph Jacobs, Lady Emma Hamilton, Lord Byron, Lord Nelson, Moses Kean, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Shelley, Richard Henry Dana, Robert Tanitch, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, William Hazlitt | Leave a comment

BEGINNING OF THE NAMELESS SOMETHING: PROMETHEUS for all

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Dave

Monarch of Gods and Dæmons, and all Spirits But One, who throng those bright and rolling worlds Which Thou and I alone of living things Behold with sleepless eyes! regard this Earth Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou Requitest … Continue reading →