Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Eliot might seem to have little in common. But for 11 years they wrote each other letters, forging an unusual literary friendship.
2018年8月13日 星期一
Robert Southey
Born on this day in 1774, the Romantic poet Robert Southey. As well as being poet laureate for 30 years and a prolific writer of letters, Southey was an avid recorder of his dreams. W.A. Speck explores the poet’s dream diary and the importance of dreams in his work: https://buff.ly/2w1sLCm
Herman Melville: His World and WORK
"Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them. Appreciation! Recognition! Is love appreciated? Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory — the world? Then we pigmies must be content to have our paper allegories but ill comprehended."
-- Herman Melville in a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 1851)
-- Herman Melville in a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 1851)
If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded — in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his literary cronies in Manhattan — an incomparable chapter of American history. From the bawdy storytelling of Typee to the spiritual preoccupations building up to and beyond Moby Dick, Delbanco brilliantly illuminates Melville’s life and work, and his crucial role as a man of American letters. READ an excerpt here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/melville-by-andrew-de…/
2018年8月11日 星期六
‘The Song of Los’ "Song: Memory, Hither Come" by William Blake
The king and queen of the fairies recline on lilies in this page from ‘The Song of Los’ written and illustrated by William Blake, who died #onthisday in 1827.
What’s your favourite Blake poem? http://ow.ly/zqMC30lleRb
The Song of Los - Wikipedia
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The Song of Los (written 1795) is one of William Blake's epic poems, known as prophetic books. The poem consists of two sections, "Africa" and "Asia". In the first section Blake catalogues the decline of morality in Europe, which he blames on ...このページを訳す
Poet and painter William Blake was born in Soho, London, England on this day in 1757.
"Song: Memory, Hither Come" by William Blake
Memory, hither come,
And tune your merry notes;
And, while upon the wind
Your music floats,
And tune your merry notes;
And, while upon the wind
Your music floats,
I'll pore upon the stream
Where sighing lovers dream,
And fish for fancies as they pass
Within the watery glass.
Where sighing lovers dream,
And fish for fancies as they pass
Within the watery glass.
I'll drink of the clear stream,
And hear the linnet's song;
And there I'll lie and dream
The day along:
And hear the linnet's song;
And there I'll lie and dream
The day along:
And, when night comes, I'll go
To places fit for woe,
Walking along the darken'd valley
With silent Melancholy.
To places fit for woe,
Walking along the darken'd valley
With silent Melancholy.
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This is a selection of the poet's work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her introduction the poet and critic expounds Blake's esoteric theory and shows how it helped to create a poetry which is unlike any other. The tigers that crouched in Blake's baleful spiritual forests, the roses and sunflowers whose mystical properties he rendered with such accurate music, the angels with whom he wrestled and who delivered prophetic books to him late at night, were literally more real to him than the London, where, in the period of the French Revolution, he lived out his life of poverty and indignant isolation. One of England's great lyric poets; one of Europe's great visionaries. Introduction by Kathleen Raine. READ more here: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/14652/poems-and-prophecies/1則
"Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secrecy the human dress."
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secrecy the human dress."
–William Blake, died #OTD 1827. Blake was an English artist and poet, whose poems mark the beginning of romanticism.
2018年8月6日 星期一
"Tithonus" is a poem by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92),
新發現的基因、蛋白質以泰索諾斯的名字命名，意義再清楚也不過了：它們可以彌補泰索諾斯永恆的遺憾、結束他永恆的痛苦。
典故指泰索諾斯素（tithonin）、泰索諾斯基因（tith）的名字。原來泰索諾斯（Tithonus）是希臘神話中一個著名的悲劇主角。他是凡人，卻成為黎明女神的愛人。女神為他求到了「永生」，卻忘了同時祈求「不老」，結果泰索諾斯被迫忍受時光凌遲肉身的痛苦，永遠不得解脫。英國桂冠詩人旦尼生以泰索諾斯為主角寫的著名詩篇(Tithon, 1860)非常感人，描寫的就是那種痛苦。於是新發現的基因、蛋白質以他的名字命名，意義再清楚也不過了：它們可以彌補泰索諾斯永恆的遺憾、結束他永恆的痛苦。對於生活在高齡社會中的人，青春永駐的現實意義不就是老而健康？
"愚人節"讀此篇或會更睿智......
王先生將詩名搞錯："Tithonus" is a poem by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92), originally written in 1833 as "Tithon" and completed in 1859.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithonus_(poem)
Ashmolean Museum
"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?" 
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British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign, was born #onthisday in 1809. This tiny little painting, just 9 x 11 cm, shows Tennyson reading aloud in a Glade. It was painted for one of his close friends, poet and critic Francis Turner Palgrave, by George James Howard, the 9th Earl of Carlisle.
Alfred Lord #Tennyson - the nation's longest serving poet laureate, and President of The London Library during the last five years of his life - was born #onthisday 1809.
2018年8月4日 星期六
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent-- A Simple Tale.; Kipps--- The Story of a Simple Soul
"My task which I am trying to achieve is by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything."
–Joseph Conrad, a Polish-born British novelist, died #OTD 1924. Conrad's parents were ardent Polish nationalists, and his childhood was darkened by the exile into which they were sent by the tsarist authorities. His mother died in 1865 and his father four years later, leaving the orphaned boy to be cared for by an uncle. Partly inspired by love of the sea, partly to avoid conscription in the Russian army, Conrad joined the French merchant navy (1874). After an unhappy period based in Marseilles, where he attempted suicide, he joined a British ship (1878) and took his profession seriously, achieving his master's certificate in 1886. In 1890 he went on a brief and unsuccessful expedition to the Congo and in 1894 he left the sea. Having become a British subject in 1886, he married an English girl (1896), and settled down to write.
昨天發現這本書有近20種的有聲免費書.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/974/974-0.txt
Title: The Secret Agent
A Simple Tale
Author: Joseph Conrad
Release Date: December 24, 2010 [eBook #974]
First released: June 28, 1997
Language: English
Character set encoding: UTF-8
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SECRET AGENT***
Transcribed from the 1907 Methuen & Co edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org
THE
SECRET AGENT
A SIMPLE TALE
BY
JOSEPH CONRAD
SECOND EDITION
METHUEN & CO.,
36 ESSEX STREET W C.
LONDON
_First Published_ . . . _September_ 1907
_Second Edition_ . . . _October_ 1907
TO
H. G. WELLS
THE CHRONICLER OF MR LEWISHAM’S LOVE
THE BIOGRAPHER OF KIPPS AND THE
HISTORIAN OF THE AGES TO COME
THIS SIMPLE TALE OF THE XIX CENTURY
IS AFFECTIONATELY OFFERED
今天我注意到它是獻給H. G. Wells的.
Wells小說多屬於佳作
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipps
Title: Kipps
The Story of a Simple Soul
Author: H. G. Wells
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39162/pg39162.txt
2018年8月3日 星期五
Percy Bysshe Shelley: ... a sea-change Into something rich and strange
"Yes! all is past and swift time has fled away"
It proved too swift for great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe #Shelley, who died #onthisday 1822, aged 29.
#poetry
It proved too swift for great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe #Shelley, who died #onthisday 1822, aged 29.
#poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the most influential poets in the English language, died today in Italy in 1822, drowned when his sailing boat got caught in a sudden storm in the Gulf of Spezia. At the time he had been working on his last major (and unfinished) poem The Triumph of Life. Read it, and others, in this beautiful art nouveau 1902 collection of Shelley poems adorned throughout with gorgeous illustrations by the English artist and designer Robert Anning Bell: https://publicdomainreview.org/…/poems-of-shelley-illustra…/
Poems of Shelley Illustrated by Robert Anning Bell (1902)
Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, introduction by Walter Raleigh, illustrated by Robert Anning Bell; 1902; George Bell and Sons, London.
A turn-of-the-century edition of Shelley’s best known verse, both epic and short, adorned throughout with gorgeous illustrations by the English artist and designer Robert Anning Bell. Almost a decade after the book was published Bell would go onto become head of design at Glasgow School of Art, and from 1918 to 1924 professor of design at the Royal College of Art, during which time he also worked on a series of mosaics for the Palace of Westminster. The book also boasts an introduction by Sir Walter Raleigh (though not he of swashbuckling fame). On the elaboration of Shelley’s poetry with illustrations Raleigh comments:
There is no great poet who offers a more hopeless task to the illustrator, if by illustration is understood a drawing that helps to the understanding of the poem. But Art begets Art, and there is surely nothing illicit about an embroidery of fair designs suggested by a reading of the poems. If they be found superfluous or irrelevant, they must share that condemnation with the preface.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
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2012/12/31 - Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.
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2012/12/31 - Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange
"What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves."
–Percy Bysshe Shelley, born #OTD 1792. Shelley was an English poet, as well as an important figure in the history of British radicalism and atheism. Mischievous and imaginative as a child, he was conventionally educated at Syon House Academy, Eton College, and University College, Oxford; an upbringing that made him unhappy and rebellious. At school he was bullied as ‘Mad Shelley’ and the ‘Eton Atheist’; at home he was worshipped by a tribe of younger sisters; a pattern that recurs throughout his life.
"What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves."
–Percy Bysshe Shelley, born #OTD 1792. Shelley was an English poet, as well as an important figure in the history of British radicalism and atheism. Mischievous and imaginative as a child, he was conventionally educated at Syon House Academy, Eton College, and University College, Oxford; an upbringing that made him unhappy and rebellious. At school he was bullied as ‘Mad Shelley’ and the ‘Eton Atheist’; at home he was worshipped by a tribe of younger sisters; a pattern that recurs throughout his life.
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | |
|---|---|
Portrait of Shelley, by Alfred Clint (1829)
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| Born | 4 August 1792 Horsham, Sussex, England[1] |
| Died | 8 July 1822 (aged 29) Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy) |
| Occupation | Poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist |
| Alma mater | University College, Oxford (no degree) |
| Literary movement | Romanticism |
| Spouse | Harriet Westbrook (m. 1811; d. 1816) Mary Shelley (m. 1816) |
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