Category Archives: Pre-Raphaelite Subjects and Themes

Lamia Broadcast

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Stephanie Piña

In my previous post I mentioned the adaptation of Keats’ Lamia on BBC Radio 4. The broadcast can be purchased and downloaded from AudioGo.  Thank you Cathy Baker for sharing the link with me!  I downloaded and listened to it … Continue reading →

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Lamia

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Stephanie Piña

I just discovered that in January there was an adaptation of Keats’ Lamia on BBC Radio 4.  I’m sorry that I missed that.  Lamia is one of my favorite works, here are two passages I enjoy the most. (You can … Continue reading →

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William Morris and Le Morte d’Arthur

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Stephanie Piña

Since finishing Le Morte d’Arthur, I’ve been refreshing my memory and reading all the references I can find regarding Pre-Raphaelite art and Arthurian influences. My first choice was a William Morris biography that I happily stumbled across at a flea … Continue reading →

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Sleeper

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Stephanie Piña

“Poe is a key figure in the development of DGR’s literary style as well. The second-order romanticism developed in Poe’s imaginative writings, and explicated in essays like “The Poetic Principle” and “The Philosophy of Composition”, is recapitulated in DGR’s work, … Continue reading →

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Stephanie Piña

Who doesn’t love Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The Raven?  A masterful poem of mourning, loss and visitation in which the poem’s speaker is grief-stricken with the death of his beloved Lenore and is haunted by memories.  Enter the raven with … Continue reading →

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Lorenzo and Isabella

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Stephanie Piña

To continue the Keats theme, let’s look at the first painting Millais painted as a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.  Lorenzo and Isabella is based on Keats’ poem Isabella, or, the Pot of Basil.  I’ve touched on the poem briefly … Continue reading →

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Keats and the Pre-Raphaelites

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Stephanie Piña

I recently saw an interview with Jane Campion on Charlie Rose and was blown away as she discussed her latest film, Bright Star.    Bright Star is based on the three-year romance between  John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which was cut … Continue reading →

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