A new video project on romanticism and the role geography played in the lives of Romantic poets.
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A new video project on romanticism and the role geography played in the lives of Romantic poets.

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The anti-rationalist revolt was carried forward on all levels of society and manifested itself in a great variety of ways: in a turning from a satisfaction with sober reason to an indulgence in passion and sensibility; from a confidence in the universality of reason to an emphasis upon the diversity of truth; from a compact, stable society to an unstable, revolutionary society; from a concentration on the general to a search for the minute and the singular; from an adherence to the agreed standards of the age to an eccentric, anti-social disregard of convention; from scientific mechanism to philosophical idealism; from the Newtonian world of science to the supernatural world of myth and mysticism; from a religion of comfortable deism to a religion of optimistic theism; from the uniformity of behavior to the differentness of men and their opinions; from the civilized and the modern to the simple, the rustic, and the primitive; from a preference for urban life to a love of country life, natural scenery, and solitudes; from preoccupation with human nature to a preoccupation with aesthetic and spiritual values of external nature; from a concern with the species to a concern with the individual; from traditional creeds to individual speculations and revelations; from the ideal of order to the ideal of expansiveness; from a distrust in originality to faith in the validity of novelty; from an interest in the usual, the ānaturalā to an absorption with the abnormal, the eccentric, and the peculiar; from imitation of classic authors to glorification of native tradition, especially the medieval; from a love of the simple and the direct to a preference for the complex and the fanciful; from the conception that poetry is an acquired art to the conception that poetry is a gift of nature; from a poetry of prose statement to a poetry of image and symbol; from satire to lyric; from the Augustan couplet to earlier verse patterns and variations upon them; from poetic diction to common language; from indifference toward social problems to a broad humanitarianism; from the ascendancy of reason to the ascendancy of the imagination.
ā Russell Noyes: from āMajor Aspects of English Romanticismā
allthingsromanticism this is the best, most all-encompassing definition Iāve seen yet
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The Seventh Crusade before Jerusalem (1838-1850) - Francesco Hayez
Goyaās Demons
Francisco Goya |Ā Saint Francis Borgia Assisting a Dying Man (fragment) |Ā Sketch vs. Final Painting | 1788
i was wondering if you could direct me towards some byron-related reading? all i really know abt him is that he died in messolonghi and that it was kind of hilarious
Books:
Life, Letters, and Journals of Lord Byron
By John Murray, edited by R.E. Prothero. Literally covers everything.Ā Link leads to the first of six volumes. From 1788-1824, if you want something comprehensive, this is it.
John Polidoriās Diary
(1816) If youāre looking for some firsthand information coming from someone who traveled with Byron for over half a year, this is Ā the place to go.
Ā Conversations of Lord Byron
By Thomas Medwin, 1924. basically his records of conversations he had with Byron in the 1820s. Some information is kind of dubious, proceed with caution unless you can get your hands on a copy edited by Ernest Lovell.
Byron: A Biography
Ā By Leslie A. Marchand, 1951. Pretty much the best there is in terms of Byron Biographies. Currently out of print, but finding a cheap, used copy isnāt difficult.
Byron: A Portrait
Ā Also by Leslie A. Marchand, 1979. Shorter and gayer than the last one; also very good. Also currently out of print, but again, not difficult to find a used copy.
Films:
Gothic (1986)
Campy 80ās semi-horror exploitation film about Byron Shelley Shelley and Polidori over the summer of 1816. Horrible mischaracterisation of basically everyone. Kind of disgusting, but delightful at the same time.
Haunted Summer (1988)
Ā Another campy 80ās movie, slightly better characterisation if you squint. Everyoneās hair is the wrong color and everyone has sex with everyone. That being said, not as inaccurate as Gothic.Ā
Byron (2003)
Ā Probably the best/most accurate Byron movie around. It covers most of his life as a poet, as well as his subsequent life in Greece. Still a bit off at times, but if you want to get a general idea of his life with only 3 hours of commitment, this is what youāre looking for.
Ā Other:
How To Be A Monster: Life Lessons From Lord Byron
Ā A 2013 article from The Awl, very short, but funny, and it should give you a basic impression of byronās jerkassery and so forth.
Go forth and learn of the mad, bad, dangerous Lord Byron, my friend.

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Louise-JosĆ©phine Sarazin de Belmont (French, 1790 ā 1870): The Roman Theatre, Taormina (1825) (via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. Solitude is indispensable for my dialogue with nature.
Caspar David Friedrich (via vagabondzine)
ā- Mrs. Bryan and her children- William Nutter and Samuel Shelley (1797)
"An engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan (fl. 1795-1816), educator and writer on natural philosophy, with her daughters. They are depicted with a telescope, armillary sphere, globe, sextant and dividers. Bryan ran a boarding-school for girls at Blackheath from 1795 to 1806, opened a school in London in 1815, and moved to Margate in 1816, where she also ran a school. Unusually, she included science and mathematics as subjects suitable for girls. Her books include A Compendious System of Astronomy (1797) (from which this image is taken), Lectures on Natural Philosophy (1806), An Astronomical and Geographical Class Book for Schools (1815). She was able to obtain the approval of the mathematician Charles Hutton (1737ā1823), and was a friend of the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskeleyne (1732ā1811). She was the scientific advisor for a 1804 revised version of the board game āScience in Sport, or the Pleasures of Astronomyā" (x)
Marie-Victoire Lemoine (French, 1754 ā 1820): The Interior of an Atelier of a Woman Painter (1796) (via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
O mighty mind, in whose deep stream this age Shakes like a reed in the unheeding storm, Why dost thou curb not thine own sacred rage?
P.B. Shelley, āFragment: To Byronā (via sixthbaron)

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Francisco de Goya,Ā Los Caprichos - n° 74 āNo grites, tontaā (1799)
Johan Christian Dahl, Clouds in Moonlight October 5, 1849
Ivan Aivazovsky
Battle of Sinop
Battle of Chios
Battle of Navarino
"One of the most prominent Russian artists of his time, Aivazovsky was also popular outside Russia. He held numerous solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States. During his almost sixty-year career, he created around 6,000 paintings, making him one of the most prolific artists of his time. The vast majority of his works are seascapes, but he often depicted battle scenes, Armenian themes, and portraiture. Most of Aivazovskyās works are kept in Russian, Ukrainian and Armenian museums as well as private collections."
Iām stressed, depressed, but well dressed.
Lord Byron (via incorrectromanticism)
Moritz von Schwind - Nixies and drinking deer, 1846

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Gustave dore, The holy bible. Ā On wikiart
Adam and Eve Are Driven out of Eden
Cain Slays Abel
The Confusion of Tongues (The tower of Babel)
The Deluge
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
Samson Slays a Lion
The Destruction of Leviathan
David Slays Goliath
Zechariah, the vision of the four war chariots
The Vision of Death
Le gĆ©nie du mal [The genius of evil, aka; Lucifer];Ā Guillaume GeefsĀ
āThe statue was originally a commission for Geefsā younger brother Joseph, who completed it in 1842 and installed it the following year. It generated controversy at once and was criticized for not representing aĀ ChristianĀ ideal.The cathedral administration declared that āthis devil is too sublime.āĀ The local press intimated that the work was distracting the āpretty penitent girlsā who should have been listening to the sermons.āĀ [x]
[The original āsublimeā version shown below, and the ārevisedā one in the photoset above]
> Make sculpture of the devil
> No this sculpture is too hot for church
> Make another one
> Itās even hotter