Clay F. Johnsonさんのイラストまとめ

Here are two favorite illustrations of mine from Grimms Märchen (Grimms’ Fairy Tales) by both Heinrich Lefler and his brother-in-law Joseph Urban.

Godfather Death
Sleeping Beauty

#FolkloreThursday #FairyTaleTuesday

A few sources I read online (English translations) claimed the nightingale was the national “animal” of Ukraine, not bird. It seems, however, there is neither an “official” animal nor bird, but both the nightingale and stork are important birds in Ukraine. Art by Ksana Matsygin.

“I remember that in my youth this gloom used to call forth to my fancy a thousand fairy visions, and romantic images; and, I own, I am not yet wholly insensible of that high enthusiasm, which wakes the poet’s dream.”

—Ann Radcliffe, died #OTD in 1823

#Gothic #Romanticism

“It is a scene terrifically desolate. In a thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche may be perceived, where trees lie broken… The sea, or rather the vast river of ice, wound among its dependent mountains...”

—Mary Shelley, died #OTD 1851

#Frankenstein #GothicChill

Édouard Manet was born #OTD 190 years ago in 1832. Here are his illustrations for Stéphane Mallarmé’s French translation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven (1845), published as Le Corbeau in 1875.

#EdgarAllanPoe #TheRaven

In my #winter-inspired poem “The Fires of Ecstasy at Samhuinn”, I wrote of the goddess Brìghde’s transformation into the Cailleach, or Queen of Winter. @elijohnart’s illustration for my poem captures that metamorphosis.

#FairyTaleTuesday #WinterSolstice

https://t.co/shuYkZ4OId

For the 170th anniversary of J.M.W. Turner’s death (1851), here are watercolors that became a sort of panacea for my winter depression when I lived in #Edinburgh in 2018.

The Piazzetta, Venice
Loch Coruisk, Skye
Storm at the Mouth of the Grand Canal (Dublin Gallery)

#Turner

William Blake was born #OTD in 1757. These illustrations by Blake are for the poem “The Grave” (1743) by Scottish poet Robert Blair, one of the so-called Graveyard Poets.

The Skeleton Reanimated
The Gambols of Ghosts
By an Open Grave

#WilliamBlake #Romanticism #Gothic

Bram Stoker’s #Dracula has inspired and influenced much of my own writing over the years. My Whitby Abbey poem, somewhat Draculaen in nature, has been illustrated by @elijohnart. Here is but a small taste of three much larger illustrations.

https://t.co/shuYkZ4OId

#WhitbyAbbey

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

—Oscar Wilde, born #OTD 1854

#31DaysOfHalloween #OscarWilde