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Category: Keats

featured menuPosted onSeptember 19, 2017October 4, 2018

What Grows from Grief

I have written about William Holman Hunt’s painting Isabella and the Pot of Basil many times before. I included it in a recent Wombat Friday…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onOctober 31, 2016October 31, 2016

Halloween, Pre-Raphaelites, and Keats

I think Sir John Everett Millais’ painting Speak! Speak! is a perfect Pre-Raphaelite image to share on Halloween.   The ghost of a bride appears…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onOctober 4, 2016October 4, 2016

Botanical Paintings: My Top Picks

An  important hallmark of Pre-Raphaelite art is truth to nature.  Of course, there are many reasons why the art of the Pre-Raphaelites is so visually…

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BooksPosted onJune 20, 2016April 17, 2018

Pan, Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Above is a detail from Arthur Rackham’s illustration of Pan from The Wind in the Willows. I first became enchanted by Pan when, as a little…

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KeatsPosted onJanuary 20, 2016January 20, 2016

The Eve of St. Agnes

Sir William Richmond, R.A. had this to say about Millais’ painting The Eve of St. Agnes and the innovative nature of Millais’ work:  “Millais’ literary sympathies were…

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KeatsPosted onMarch 25, 2015

Lamia Revisited

Left to herself, the serpent now began To change; her elfin blood in madness ran, Her mouth foam’d, and the grass, therewith besprent, Wither’d at…

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KeatsPosted onJuly 14, 2014January 5, 2015

Waterhouse and Transformations

After my post about Clytie changing into the sunflower, I’ve been pondering transformations. Lamia is perhaps my favorite example of a dramatic transformation.  Based on…

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George Henry Grenville MantonPosted onJune 16, 2014January 5, 2015

Love, Death and Potted Plants

William Holman Hunt’s Isabella and the Pot of Basil is currently in the news with the recent announcement that the Delaware Art museum will be…

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Arthur HughesPosted onMarch 6, 2014September 8, 2016

Alone and palely loitering: La Belle Dame sans Merci

La Belle Dame sans Merci translated from the French means “the beautiful lady without pity” or “the beautiful lady without mercy”.  It is possible that…

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KeatsPosted onMarch 20, 2012January 4, 2015

Lamia Broadcast

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…

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KeatsPosted onMarch 20, 2012January 4, 2015

Lamia

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…

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KeatsPosted onNovember 4, 2009January 3, 2015

Lorenzo and Isabella

This is the first work Millais painted as a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.  Lorenzo and Isabella is based on Keats’ poem Isabella, or, the…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onNovember 4, 2009October 31, 2016

Keats and the Pre-Raphaelites

I recently saw an interview with Jane Campion on Charlie Rose and was interested as she discussed her latest film, Bright Star.    Based on the…

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KeatsPosted onSeptember 12, 2007March 23, 2009

Isabella and the Pot of Basil

I had seen this painting several times in books and online, but when I saw it in person I was blown away. The painting is…

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