Tag Archives: John Keats

SANTA WANDERING and WEARY: Homeward Bound

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Dave

From whence he came and where he goes is not clear with the precision of science or the proof or artifact. One thing which can be deduced is that Santa Claus is a master of the art of wandering. For … Continue reading →

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EYE CANDY FOR THE RULING CLASS: “Les Caresses Dangereuses”

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Dave

“Later, during the Renaissance, the mad were displayed in cages set up in the streets, or were visible through the bars on the windows of their cells in the as yet unreformed asylums. In fact, up until the early nineteenth century, Foucault tells us, … Continue reading →

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Tempesta: enigma of of visual poetry

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Dave

It is a rhetoric of enigma and the art of indeterminacy. Behind this curtain is a paradox of narrative mystification. Giorgione is the most mysterious and perhaps the greatest of all Venetian Renaissance artists- but only a handful of paintings … Continue reading →

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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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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 →

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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 →

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MASKS OF PESSIMISM: MIRTH,MADNESS & MANLINESS

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Dave

Clyde boastfully, but shyly introduces them with a disarming smile, accentuating the bond they share with the country folk – while anticipating (almost as an afterthought) the course that they are committed to pursue – bank robbery: This here’s Miss … Continue reading →

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DIONYSIAN: WINE,FRENZY & the TORTURED AESTHETIC

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Dave

In more recent years, even those who admire Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” , realize the book challenges traditional values.For example, observers compare the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus. In the same manner the wily economic behavior of modern Greeks … Continue reading →

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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 →

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REAL REAL GONE: ITS A MAD MAD UNDERWORLD

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Dave

The main claim is that the Romantics turned the agenda of the Enlightenment on its head with a vengeance; it was crisis in an age of reason, the somewhat logical and not unexpected reaction to a scientific age. It was … Continue reading →