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PRIDE before PLEASURE: ROMANCE As An Utterly Suspect Pretension
“À propos to novels, I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman; that mamma knew all her family very intimately; and that she herself is an old maid (I beg her pardon – I mean a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Charlotte Bronte, Coleridge, Fanny Burney, George Lewes, Hugo Petrus, Jane Austen, Kate Beaton, Maria Edgeworth, Mark Twain, Mary Russell Mitford, Michelle Kerns, Milton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rev. A.G. Lestrange, Robert Morrison, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Lawrence, Tim Killick
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US AND THEM: THE MADCAP LAUGHS
Henry Fuseli’s painting “The Mandrake” , now lost, struck the aging Horace Walpole as “shockingly mad, madder than ever, quite mad!” But Fuseli would hardly have regarded that as an insult. Much of the time he was trading on madness … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Price, Donizetti, Dr. Georget De La Folie, Dr. Georget psychiatrist, Ernst Gombrich, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, George Crabbe, Gericault, Goethe, Henry Fuseli, Holman Hunt, Horace Walpole, John Buchan, John Everett Millais, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joseph Anton Koch, Lord Byron, Milton, Milton Paradise Lost, Philip V. Allingham, Shakespeare, Simon Schama, Sir Walter Scott, Stanley Kubrick, Tasso, Theodore Gericault, Thomas De Quincey, Torquato Tasso, Wilhelm Heinse, William Blake, William Holman Hunt
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REAL REAL GONE: ITS A MAD MAD UNDERWORLD
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
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Tagged Alexander Sturgis, Carl Friedrich Lessing, Dante Alighieri, Edward Young, Ernst Gombrich, Francisco Goya, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Isaac Newton, Jim Lane, John Flaxman, John Keats, John Locke, Joseph Wright, Joyce Plesters, Kieron Devlin, Lynne Gibson, Marco Lanzagorta, Mario Praz, Martin Myrone, Michael Cohen, Milton, Peggy Hadden, Peter Swaab, Rembrandt, Richard Cosway, Robert Miles, Romantic Age, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Sigmund Freud, Tim Blanning, William Blake, William Hazlitt, Wordsworth
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