From Toronto: all the Keats poems; the sonnet on the Elgin Marbles; the Urn; the sonnet on the four seasons; the ode called "To Autumn."
The British Museum's public information on the Elgin Marbles and the broader set of pieces from the Parthenon.
A few of those pieces: a sacrificial procession (with cow); horsemen.
Two sonnets by John Milton important to Keats' thinking about the sonnet as a form and about his own poetic career.
A meaning Keats could not have intended in "To Autumn," and yet an analogy for one of his lyric goals.
The only certainly authenticated sketch of Jane Austen, by Cassandra Austen (1810).
A nonacademic but comprehensive e-resource center for the study of Austen, including a quick biography.
The Cobb at Lyme, in a modern photograph. The stairs from which Louisa jumps.
An oddly placemat-like annotated map of Jane Austen's Bath. A proper map of Bath in her time (sans annotations).
The Jane Austen Society of North America, a helpful but nonacademic resource, and the Jane Austen Society of the UK, likewise.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Monday, February 17, 2014
Wordsworth and Coleridge (2)
Wordsworth's two voices, and J. K. Stephen's 1891 parody.
Wordsworth and the Visible Man.
Once again, what Wordsworth would have seen "a few miles above Tintern Abbey," thanks to D. S. Miall: a modern-day view and the relevant plate from Samuel Ireland's Picturesque Views on the River Wye (1797), which describes Wordsworth's path. The Wye with sycamores (picture by Miall).
A very Wordsworthian picture (with two senses of "nature," if not many more).
Wordsworth's Immortality Ode.
An albatross.
Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode."
The new moon with the old moon in her arms. John Constable's 1816 painting "Weymouth Bay."
All about the ballad "Sir Patrick Spens." Ewan MacColl's a cappella version; a well-known folk-rock version.
A modern copy of a 17th-c. Aeolian harp. Another Aeolian harp, by the modern Canadian instrument maker David Johnson, but not far from early 19th-c designs. The "Aeolian lyre" in Thomas Gray.
Wordsworth and the Visible Man.
Once again, what Wordsworth would have seen "a few miles above Tintern Abbey," thanks to D. S. Miall: a modern-day view and the relevant plate from Samuel Ireland's Picturesque Views on the River Wye (1797), which describes Wordsworth's path. The Wye with sycamores (picture by Miall).
A very Wordsworthian picture (with two senses of "nature," if not many more).
Wordsworth's Immortality Ode.
An albatross.
Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode."
The new moon with the old moon in her arms. John Constable's 1816 painting "Weymouth Bay."
All about the ballad "Sir Patrick Spens." Ewan MacColl's a cappella version; a well-known folk-rock version.
A modern copy of a 17th-c. Aeolian harp. Another Aeolian harp, by the modern Canadian instrument maker David Johnson, but not far from early 19th-c designs. The "Aeolian lyre" in Thomas Gray.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Wordsworth and Coleridge (1)
The Wordsworth Centre.
A guide to the sprawling current standard academic edition of Wordsworth's poems, with brief descriptions of the major works.
One analogy, from another art form, for the effect of Lyrical Ballads.
Wordsworth as elderly sage, also as sage, and a pen-and-ink drawing of the poet young and worried.
Many images of Tintern Abbey and the Wye Valley from the Romantic period. Seen from across the River Wye right now.
But the poem takes place, the title says, "a few miles above" (i.e. upstream from) Tintern Abbey-- probably about here, according to David S. Miall's arresting scholarly argument about what Wordsworth actually describes. A relevant plate from Samuel Ireland's Picturesque Views on the River Wye (1797), which describes Wordsworth's path. The Wye with sycamores (picture by Miall).
Some of Wordsworth's manuscripts in electronic facsimile.
The Toronto online versions of some Wordsworth poems, including "Simon Lee" and the poem commonly known as "Tintern Abbey" and the Immortality Ode and the entirety of the first edition of Lyrical Ballads and the disturbing "Ode to Duty."
Dove Cottage and Rydal Mount. One tourist's view from Rydal Mount.
From UCSB, important events for the study of Romanticism, year by year.
From the University of Alberta, a set of resources for studying Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight": multiple online texts, with an earlier version, biographical and critical background, and the makings of an essay about Coleridge, childhood grief, and attachment theory.
A guide to the sprawling current standard academic edition of Wordsworth's poems, with brief descriptions of the major works.
One analogy, from another art form, for the effect of Lyrical Ballads.
Wordsworth as elderly sage, also as sage, and a pen-and-ink drawing of the poet young and worried.
Many images of Tintern Abbey and the Wye Valley from the Romantic period. Seen from across the River Wye right now.
But the poem takes place, the title says, "a few miles above" (i.e. upstream from) Tintern Abbey-- probably about here, according to David S. Miall's arresting scholarly argument about what Wordsworth actually describes. A relevant plate from Samuel Ireland's Picturesque Views on the River Wye (1797), which describes Wordsworth's path. The Wye with sycamores (picture by Miall).
Some of Wordsworth's manuscripts in electronic facsimile.
The Toronto online versions of some Wordsworth poems, including "Simon Lee" and the poem commonly known as "Tintern Abbey" and the Immortality Ode and the entirety of the first edition of Lyrical Ballads and the disturbing "Ode to Duty."
Dove Cottage and Rydal Mount. One tourist's view from Rydal Mount.
From UCSB, important events for the study of Romanticism, year by year.
From the University of Alberta, a set of resources for studying Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight": multiple online texts, with an earlier version, biographical and critical background, and the makings of an essay about Coleridge, childhood grief, and attachment theory.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Johnson and Blake
Jack Lynch's guide to online resources for Johnson.
The Plan (i.e. proposal) for Johnson's Dictionary.
Johnson's poem "On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet."
The Blake Archive.
The Blake Society.
A title page for Innocence and Experience (copy L).
A title page for Songs of Innocence.
A title page from another copy of Songs of Innocence.
One version of "The Little Black Boy"; page two from the same copy; page two from another copy (note the boys' colors in each).
One version of "The Lamb"; another version.
One version of "The Tyger"; another version.
"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell": one of many title pages.
Blake's works at Britain's Tate Gallery.
A beautiful (but amateur) online display of all the plates from one copy of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. One plate from the Proverbs of Hell.
The Plan (i.e. proposal) for Johnson's Dictionary.
Johnson's poem "On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet."
The Blake Archive.
The Blake Society.
A title page for Innocence and Experience (copy L).
A title page for Songs of Innocence.
A title page from another copy of Songs of Innocence.
One version of "The Little Black Boy"; page two from the same copy; page two from another copy (note the boys' colors in each).
One version of "The Lamb"; another version.
One version of "The Tyger"; another version.
"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell": one of many title pages.
Blake's works at Britain's Tate Gallery.
A beautiful (but amateur) online display of all the plates from one copy of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. One plate from the Proverbs of Hell.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
The Beggar's Opera
Full text of the play (1728), and an articulate introduction, from the University of Oregon.
The popular musical rewriting by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, another adaptation by former Czech president Vaclav Havel.
Three songs from the opera (music by Pepusch): "Through all the employments"; "In the days of my youth"; and the climactic number (tune from "Greensleeves"): "Since laws were made."
William Hogarth at the Tate Gallery; Hogarth's depiction of Beggar's Opera Act III, scene 11, as it may have looked in its first production on the London stage.
A recent (2011) production of Handel and Gay's Acis and Galatea.
John Gay gives a lady lampreys.
Prime Minister Robert Walpole.
The public hanging of Jack Sheppard.
Jonathan Wild, thief-taker, "great man," notorious criminal, on his way to the gallows.
The story of Sheppard, from The Complete Newgate Calendar (online at the Univ. of Texas).
"But gold from law can take out the sting..."
The popular musical rewriting by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, another adaptation by former Czech president Vaclav Havel.
Three songs from the opera (music by Pepusch): "Through all the employments"; "In the days of my youth"; and the climactic number (tune from "Greensleeves"): "Since laws were made."
William Hogarth at the Tate Gallery; Hogarth's depiction of Beggar's Opera Act III, scene 11, as it may have looked in its first production on the London stage.
A recent (2011) production of Handel and Gay's Acis and Galatea.
John Gay gives a lady lampreys.
Prime Minister Robert Walpole.
The public hanging of Jack Sheppard.
Jonathan Wild, thief-taker, "great man," notorious criminal, on his way to the gallows.
The story of Sheppard, from The Complete Newgate Calendar (online at the Univ. of Texas).
"But gold from law can take out the sting..."
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