Keats-Shelley Houseさんのイラストまとめ

Charles Dickens was born #onthisday 1812. In 1845, he visited Rome's Non-Catholic Cemetery.
'To an English traveller,' Dickens notes, this marks the graves of Shelley and Keats, ''whose name is writ in water' that shines brightly in the landscape of a calm Italian night.'

#OTD 1817 Allegra, daughter of Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont, was born. The next day Mary Shelley tells Byron that ‘Claire was safely delivered of a little girl..She sends her affectionate love to you’. Allegra will die aged 5 at a convent, after being sent there by her father.

10th December 1820. 'The Fates seize John Keats'. The poet suffers a haemorrhage so severe it ends any hopes of recovery. He attempts to end his life, but is prevented by Joseph Severn, who removes 'every destroying mean from his reach'. Read more: https://t.co/YHCMRIyqKt

'I hope you have good store of double violets—I think they are the Princesses of flowers and in a shower of rain, almost as fine as barley sugar drops are to a schoolboy’s tongue.'

John Keats to Fanny Keats, 12 April 1819. Hints of Nightingale's 'Fast fading violets'? #onthisday

'O pang-dowered Poet, whose reverberant lips
And heart-strung lyre awoke the Moon’s eclipse'

Dante Gabriel Rossetti goes the full John Keats in his 'Writ in Water' sonnet.

Dr Dinah Roe @preraphsrule reads & discusses the poem on the K-S Prize Podcast: https://t.co/2bA4R8hVnp

Four Isabellas and Pots of Basil - to mark the 200th birthday of John Keats' final poetry volume - Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes - published this week in 1820.

Clockwise from top left: Holman Hunt (1868), Millais (1848), Joseph Severn (1877), John White Alexander (1897).

‘I shall read a passage of Shakespeare every Sunday at ten oClock – you read one at the same time and we shall be as near each other as blind bodies can be in the same room.'

John Keats invents Keats-Shelley #synchronisedreading group - starting Wednesday, 1 April 12pm GMT.

For #FolkloreThursday - what are your favourite folk stories, lores and myths, especially ones connected to the Romantic poets?

We are looking into Lamia - starting with Isobel Lilian Gloag's Keats-inspired The Kiss of the Enchantress (ca 1890).

4 May to 30 June 2018: Mary Shelley - Spirit of Place: A temporary exhibition at the Keats-Shelley House with new work by artist @louisa_albani More details: https://t.co/xolcAEQPbQ

Forget Santa. Here's La Befana, Italy's wine-sipping witch. A little early but it is #folklorethursday https://t.co/oY8U0Ph81w via @Slate