The Enchanted Castle: at this apex of feeling, the
poet/painter is tolled back to “self-concentration”,
and, carefully selecting the words or colours for sunlight (“patent yellow or
white lead”,
renews their cycle of creativity. As for the rest of us, without their “magic
casements, opening on the foam / Of perilous seas”,
where on earth would we be?.........
Friday, 25 October 2013
Saturday, 19 October 2013
Chameleon and Narcissus
part four of The Character of Light
John Keats, Thomas Lawrence and the Brilliance Feminine
Sir Thomas Lawrence. Mrs. Jens Wolff, 1803 - 1815.
© The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball
Collection.
We feed on the human drama; it stirs and nourishes us. The painting suddenly looks better. We must forget....
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Sally Siddons
Monday, 7 October 2013
"The next Keats can only be a painter”
part three of The Character of Light
JOHN KEATS AND VICTORIAN PAINTERS
Edward Burne- Jones, Beguiling of Merlin, 1872 -77, Lady Lever Art Gallery.
Image source: Wikipedia
"La Belle Dame sans merci/Hath thee in thrall!"
Their admiration for his technique of conveying intensity of sensory experience was genuine - "the next Keats can only be a painter" observed Dante Gabriel Rossetti in a letter to William Morris - but like many apostles they distorted the intentions of their prophet.
Keats had.....
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Ellen Terry,
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