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Harry Macdonough (tenor) and Joseph Belmont (bird song) perform Reginald De Koven's "Robin Redbreast" in 1907: https://t.co/dOUpfH6SgZ
Drawing on sources as varied as Wordsworth, Hitchcock, and Conan Doyle, author @PhilipPullman considers the sonic beauty and expert storytelling of Milton's Paradise Lost and the influence it has had on his own work: https://t.co/bBwyiSa6WY
Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died #onthisday in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender + imagination in the seventeenth century: https://t.co/sXJtuHnFTJ #OTD
Entering the US public domain in 2022: Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel *The Sun Also Rises*.
More info behind window 9 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://t.co/mnuFbd2jyz #PDin2022
Illustrations from the beguiling Clavis Artis, a German alchemical manuscript which claims to hail from the 13th century and have pages made from dragon skin: https://t.co/3QEsmte3mP
In 1585, the Englishman John White, governor of one of the very first North American colonies, made a series of exquisite watercolour sketches of the native Algonkin people alongside whom the settlers would try to live. @ResObscura explores... https://t.co/4duGfA2TF4
Arthur Dove, Pond in Sunlight (1935).
More of his work on view over at @byrawpixel: https://t.co/EIcdSwIYcE
To all those celebrating today, a very happy #Thanksgiving! If you are in need of some last minute improvised table decorations this could be of use... The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling, from 1910: https://t.co/N5dO82OBw4
New Essay: @BullenRoss on how a story told by the African American novelist, historian, playwright, and physician William Wells Brown circulated, first through his own works, and then abroad, as a parable of American banking gone bad https://t.co/iXJGBfsq1S
#SundayReads: Vlad Solomon on what made 1830s Parisiens laugh in a moment of crisis through the prism of a vaudeville play.... https://t.co/9ArPJ2cpDz
(Image: coloured etching by Robert Cruikshank depicting a distressed cholera patient experimenting with remedies, ca. 1832)