From, of course, Toronto: Kipling's "Recessional," written for the Diamond Jubilee, and before the Boer War.
Toronto's selection of poems from Thomas Hardy.
The Boer War: Magersfontein, and soldiers in the field at Rosmead (Daskoppies).
From the Victorian Web, a reliable text (you'd be surprised how many bad ones are out there) of Hardy's "Drummer Hodge."
From Toronto, Hardy's "The Convergence of the Twain." The subject of that poem, in harbor. The other subject of the "consummation" in Hardy's poem.
Many, many more images and photographs relevant to the life and works of Thomas Hardy.
The current American poet Philip Levine praises "During Wind and Rain"; scroll down a bit for an accurate version of the poem.
The Great War starts.
The Toronto selection from Edward Thomas. An articulate if limited resource center for Thomas and the other Dymock Poets.
From Toronto, Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est."
A First World War internet archive, and a related archive devoted to poetry. Another multimedia First World War archive. From that archive, a primer on poison gas.
Soldiers putting on gas masks.Soldiers digging a trench.
The considerable English critic, scholar and poet Tim Kendall has a war poetry blog, with its own useful links
Monday, March 31, 2014
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Earnest
Oscar Wilde, photogenic aesthete, and an 1881 parody of his early public image. Max Beerbohm's caricature of Wilde on his successful American tour.
The full text of Wilde's essay in dialogue form, "The Decay of Lying."
More full text of Wilde's works online, inelegantly, from the Victorian Web, and very elegantly at a nonacademic site.
One of Beardsley's famous illustrations for Wilde's Salome (English tr. by Douglas pub. 1894); another one of Beardsley's illustrations, and another.
More Beardsley and Decadence: A Suggested Reform for... Ballet" (1895); another title page; a collection of Beardsley's art for the Yellow Book, which contrary to reputation never published Wilde.
Wilde's image and identity sell things.
Some of the most important things in life.
Stills from a few recent productions of Earnest: Seattle's Village Theatre (what is Lady Bracknell wearing?). Algernon and Jack, from the Village Theatre again.
An all-male, perhaps too modern Earnest.
Another recent Earnest from the National Theater School of Canada.
The full text of Wilde's essay in dialogue form, "The Decay of Lying."
More full text of Wilde's works online, inelegantly, from the Victorian Web, and very elegantly at a nonacademic site.
One of Beardsley's famous illustrations for Wilde's Salome (English tr. by Douglas pub. 1894); another one of Beardsley's illustrations, and another.
More Beardsley and Decadence: A Suggested Reform for... Ballet" (1895); another title page; a collection of Beardsley's art for the Yellow Book, which contrary to reputation never published Wilde.
Wilde's image and identity sell things.
Some of the most important things in life.
Stills from a few recent productions of Earnest: Seattle's Village Theatre (what is Lady Bracknell wearing?). Algernon and Jack, from the Village Theatre again.
An all-male, perhaps too modern Earnest.
Another recent Earnest from the National Theater School of Canada.
Monday, March 24, 2014
Hopkins and Pater, and a few more Pre-Raphaelites
More Pre-Raphaelites: Holman Hunt's "The Hireling Shepherd" (1851) and J. W. Waterhouse's Lady of Shalott (1888) and another image of Waterhouse's Lady (illustrating Tennyson's poem).
Journalism: a header from an 1844 Illustrated London News, and a front page.
Your excerpt from Pater's Renaissance has, as visual example, only the Mona Lisa (La Gioconda); Pater's book also devotes chapters to Giorgione, Michelangelo (as poet), Della Robbia, and Botticelli. Here's Giorgone's Tempest (1508), Luca Della Robbia's Virgin and Child, and Botticelli's Madonna of the Pomegranate (1490s).
From Toronto again, Walter Pater on Coleridge, and on Wordsworth, and on style: "Such is the matter of imaginative or artistic literature -- this transcript, not of mere fact, but of fact in its infinite variety, as modified by human preference in all its infinitely varied forms."
The Victorian Web people go to work on Hopkins and on Pater.
Hopkins at Toronto: "The Wreck of the Deutschland." "The Windhover." Also "As kingfishers..." and two of the so-called "terrible sonnets," "No worst, there is none" and "Thou art indeed just, Lord."
Hopkins's source for "Thou art indeed just": Jeremiah 12, in the King James version, and (if you read Latin) in a nonacademic online edition of the Vulgate, what Hopkins himself would have read and reread.
Some pages from Hopkins' journals (note the interpenetration of words and sketches).
A British kingfisher. Another British kingfisher: see how the feathers across the bird's back "catch fire."
A windhover, or British kestrel, in characteristic "hovering" form.
Journalism: a header from an 1844 Illustrated London News, and a front page.
Your excerpt from Pater's Renaissance has, as visual example, only the Mona Lisa (La Gioconda); Pater's book also devotes chapters to Giorgione, Michelangelo (as poet), Della Robbia, and Botticelli. Here's Giorgone's Tempest (1508), Luca Della Robbia's Virgin and Child, and Botticelli's Madonna of the Pomegranate (1490s).
From Toronto again, Walter Pater on Coleridge, and on Wordsworth, and on style: "Such is the matter of imaginative or artistic literature -- this transcript, not of mere fact, but of fact in its infinite variety, as modified by human preference in all its infinitely varied forms."
The Victorian Web people go to work on Hopkins and on Pater.
Hopkins at Toronto: "The Wreck of the Deutschland." "The Windhover." Also "As kingfishers..." and two of the so-called "terrible sonnets," "No worst, there is none" and "Thou art indeed just, Lord."
Hopkins's source for "Thou art indeed just": Jeremiah 12, in the King James version, and (if you read Latin) in a nonacademic online edition of the Vulgate, what Hopkins himself would have read and reread.
Some pages from Hopkins' journals (note the interpenetration of words and sketches).
A British kingfisher. Another British kingfisher: see how the feathers across the bird's back "catch fire."
A windhover, or British kestrel, in characteristic "hovering" form.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Swinburne and the Rossettis
Christina Rossetti's "Up-Hill." George Herbert's "Love (III)" and Herbert's other poems at Toronto's site.
Christina Rossetti's set of poems at Toronto's site.
D. G. Rossetti, "Dante's Dream" (1856) at the Tate. D.G.Rossetti, "Dantis Amor" ("Dante's Vision of Love," 1860), a panel. DGR's "Blessed Damozel" (1875-78), at the Fogg.
One of DGR's engraved illustrations for "Goblin Market" (1862).
Victorian Web's Christina Rossetti page.
Christina Rossetti and her mother.
Swinburne's "Hymn to Proserpine." More Swinburne from Toronto.
The Louvre hermaphrodite. A closer view.
A fully searchable online Swinburne from Indiana University.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting "Proserpine" (1874) at the Tate.
Christina Rossetti's set of poems at Toronto's site.
D. G. Rossetti, "Dante's Dream" (1856) at the Tate. D.G.Rossetti, "Dantis Amor" ("Dante's Vision of Love," 1860), a panel. DGR's "Blessed Damozel" (1875-78), at the Fogg.
One of DGR's engraved illustrations for "Goblin Market" (1862).
Victorian Web's Christina Rossetti page.
Christina Rossetti and her mother.
Swinburne's "Hymn to Proserpine." More Swinburne from Toronto.
The Louvre hermaphrodite. A closer view.
A fully searchable online Swinburne from Indiana University.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting "Proserpine" (1874) at the Tate.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Robert Browning
From Toronto, poems by Robert Browning, among them "Andrea del Sarto" and "Fra Lippo Lippi."
A map of Florence in 1493. Modern Florence, a tourist view.
Find paintings at ArtStor (Harvard login required); for Fra Lippo Lippi (Fillippino or Fillippo Lippi), search only for "Lippi."
Giotto's Presentation of the Virgin (1305); Giotto's Deposition; Fra Angelico's Annunciation (1430?).
Fra Lippi's Madonna and Child (1445; in Florence, where Robert Browning would likely have seen it). Lippi's Disputation, in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence.
Lippi's Coronation (described in the poem).
The Victorian Web collective annotates "Fra Lippo Lippi."
Paintings by Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) via ArtStor (Harvard login required).
The central figure from Andrea's Madonna of the Harpies (1517). The Madonna of the Harpies seen entire.
Andrea's Holy Family. An Annunciation (1528). Andrea's Madonna della Scala now in the Prado.
All of Vasari's Lives, trans. Gaston DeVere. Vasari's Life of Andrea del Sarto and his Life of Lippi and Botticelli(translator uncredited, but it's DeVere).
A map of Florence in 1493. Modern Florence, a tourist view.
Find paintings at ArtStor (Harvard login required); for Fra Lippo Lippi (Fillippino or Fillippo Lippi), search only for "Lippi."
Giotto's Presentation of the Virgin (1305); Giotto's Deposition; Fra Angelico's Annunciation (1430?).
Fra Lippi's Madonna and Child (1445; in Florence, where Robert Browning would likely have seen it). Lippi's Disputation, in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence.
Lippi's Coronation (described in the poem).
The Victorian Web collective annotates "Fra Lippo Lippi."
Paintings by Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) via ArtStor (Harvard login required).
The central figure from Andrea's Madonna of the Harpies (1517). The Madonna of the Harpies seen entire.
Andrea's Holy Family. An Annunciation (1528). Andrea's Madonna della Scala now in the Prado.
All of Vasari's Lives, trans. Gaston DeVere. Vasari's Life of Andrea del Sarto and his Life of Lippi and Botticelli(translator uncredited, but it's DeVere).
Monday, March 3, 2014
Ruskin and Tennyson and other Victorians
A mirror and a lamp.
Another similar pair, with a simple diagram.
A cornucopia of pictures and excerpts w/r/t Ruskin and the visual arts. (h/t Victorian Web)
Lots of Tennyson at the Toronto site, including "Locksley Hall," the sequel to "Locksley Hall" (in the same remarkable meter), "Ulysses," and "Tithonus."
Also from Toronto: the entirety of In Memoriam.
From Britain's National Portrait Gallery, F. L. Chantrey's sketch of A. H. Hallam.
From the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum-- a great place to look for almost anything about the applied and decorative arts in Britain, in any period-- Victorian mourning fabric.
From Victorian Web: the Tennyson home page, and the Arnold page, and the E. B. Browning page, and the recently revised Emily Brontë page.
One of many photographs of Tennyson.
Emily Brontë's "No coward soul" in the Toronto version (with punctuation made regular, as she might have done had she prepared it for printing; Norton gives exactly what she wrote). And "Remembrance."
Arnold's "To Marguerite, Continued," and its less than subtle prequel (note the last lines). Arnold's "Dover Beach."
Looking at Dover: the famous cliffs; the tumultuous sea and shore.
Mill's "What Is Poetry?" a.k.a. "Thoughts on Poetry and Its Varieties" (1833) in an awkward but well-edited version and in another.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, in electronic full text (requires Harvard login).
Turner's slave ship, at the MFA, and Turner's Burning of the Houses of Parliament (one of two paintings by that title.
One of the versions of Fitzgerald's Rubaiyyat in a complete (if unattractive) online text from Cornell.
A fun, multilingual, and informative, though very much nonacademic, Omar Khayyam fan site, with comparisons between the Persian (in Persian script) of Omar, literal translations into English and other European languages, and FitzGerald's adaptations.
Another similar pair, with a simple diagram.
A cornucopia of pictures and excerpts w/r/t Ruskin and the visual arts. (h/t Victorian Web)
Lots of Tennyson at the Toronto site, including "Locksley Hall," the sequel to "Locksley Hall" (in the same remarkable meter), "Ulysses," and "Tithonus."
Also from Toronto: the entirety of In Memoriam.
From Britain's National Portrait Gallery, F. L. Chantrey's sketch of A. H. Hallam.
From the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum-- a great place to look for almost anything about the applied and decorative arts in Britain, in any period-- Victorian mourning fabric.
From Victorian Web: the Tennyson home page, and the Arnold page, and the E. B. Browning page, and the recently revised Emily Brontë page.
One of many photographs of Tennyson.
Emily Brontë's "No coward soul" in the Toronto version (with punctuation made regular, as she might have done had she prepared it for printing; Norton gives exactly what she wrote). And "Remembrance."
Arnold's "To Marguerite, Continued," and its less than subtle prequel (note the last lines). Arnold's "Dover Beach."
Looking at Dover: the famous cliffs; the tumultuous sea and shore.
Mill's "What Is Poetry?" a.k.a. "Thoughts on Poetry and Its Varieties" (1833) in an awkward but well-edited version and in another.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, in electronic full text (requires Harvard login).
Turner's slave ship, at the MFA, and Turner's Burning of the Houses of Parliament (one of two paintings by that title.
One of the versions of Fitzgerald's Rubaiyyat in a complete (if unattractive) online text from Cornell.
A fun, multilingual, and informative, though very much nonacademic, Omar Khayyam fan site, with comparisons between the Persian (in Persian script) of Omar, literal translations into English and other European languages, and FitzGerald's adaptations.
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