Podcasts about Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Today's poem is a shape poem dedicated to chefs, but (surprise?) it might be about more than cooking.John Hollander, one of contemporary poetry's foremost poets, editors, and anthologists, grew up in New York City. He studied at Columbia University and Indiana University, and he was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. Hollander received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Levinson Prize, a MacArthur Foundation grant, and the poet laureateship of Connecticut. He served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and he taught at Hunter College, Connecticut College, and Yale University, where he was the Sterling Professor emeritus of English.Over the course of an astonishing career, Hollander influenced generations of poets and thinkers with his critical work, his anthologies and his poetry. In the words of J.D. McClatchy, Hollander was “a formidable presence in American literary life.” Hollander's eminence as a scholar and critic was in some ways greater than his reputation as a poet. His groundbreaking introduction to form and prosody Rhyme's Reason (1981), as well as his work as an anthologist, has ensured him a place as one of the 20th-century's great, original literary critics. Hollander's critical writing is known for its extreme erudition and graceful touch. Hollander's poetry possesses many of the same qualities, though the wide range of allusion and technical virtuosity can make it seem “difficult” to a general readership.Hollander's first poetry collection, A Crackling of Thorns (1958) won the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Awards, judged by W.H. Auden. And in fact James K. Robinson in the Southern Review found that Hollander's “early poetry resembles Auden's in its wit, its learned allusiveness, its prosodic mastery.” Hollander's technique continued to develop through later books like Visions from the Ramble (1965) and The Night Mirror (1971). Broader in range and scope than his previous work, Hollander's Tales Told of the Fathers (1975) and Spectral Emanations (1978) heralded his arrival as a major force in contemporary poetry. Reviewing Spectral Emanations for the New Republic, Harold Bloom reflected on his changing impressions of the poet's work over the first 20 years of his career: “I read [A Crackling of Thorns] … soon after I first met the poet, and was rather more impressed by the man than by the book. It has taken 20 years for the emotional complexity, spiritual anguish, and intellectual and moral power of the man to become the book. The enormous mastery of verse was there from the start, and is there still … But there seemed almost always to be more knowledge and insight within Hollander than the verse could accommodate.” Bloom found in Spectral Emanations “another poet as vital and accomplished as [A.R.] Ammons, [James] Merrill, [W.S.] Merwin, [John] Ashbery, James Wright, an immense augmentation to what is clearly a group of major poets.”Shortly after Spectral Emanations, Hollander published Blue Wine and Other Poems (1979), a volume which a number of critics have identified as an important milestone in Hollander's life and career. Reviewing the work for the New Leader, Phoebe Pettingell remarked, “I would guess from the evidence of Blue Wine that John Hollander is now at the crossroads of his own midlife journey, picking out a new direction to follow.” Hollander's new direction proved to be incredibly fruitful: his next books were unqualified successes. Powers of Thirteen (1983) won the Bollingen Prize from Yale University and In Time and Place (1986) was highly praised for its blend of verse and prose. In the Times Literary Supplement, Jay Parini believed “an elegiac tone dominates this book, which begins with a sequence of 34 poems in the In Memoriam stanza. These interconnecting lyrics are exquisite and moving, superior to almost anything else Hollander has ever written.” Parini described the book as “a landmark in contemporary poetry.” McClatchy held up In Time and Place as evidence that Hollander is “part conjurer and part philosopher, one of our language's true mythographers and one of its very best poets.”Hollander continued to publish challenging, technically stunning verse throughout the 1980s and '90s. His Selected Poetry (1993) was released simultaneously with Tesserae (1993); Figurehead and Other Poems (1999) came a few years later. “The work collected in [Tesserae and Other Poems and Selected Poetry] makes clear that John Hollander is a considerable poet,” New Republic reviewer Vernon Shetley remarked, “but it may leave readers wondering still, thirty-five years after his first book … exactly what kind of poet Hollander is.” Shetley recognized the sheer variety of Hollander's work, but also noted the peculiar absence of anything like a personality, “as if the poet had taken to heart, much more fully than its author, Eliot's dictum that poetry should embody ‘emotion which has its life in the poem and not in the history of the poet.'” Another frequent charge leveled against Hollander's work is that it is “philosophical verse.” Reviewing A Draft of Light (2008) for Jacket Magazine, Alex Lewis argued that instead of writing “philosophizing verse,” Hollander actually “borrows from philosophy a language and a way of thought. Hollander's poems are frequently meta-poems that create further meaning out of their own self-interrogations, out of their own reflexivity.” As always, the poems are underpinned by an enormous amount of learning and incredible technical expertise and require “a good deal of time and thought to unravel,” Lewis admitted. But the rewards are great: “the book deepens every time that I read it,” Lewis wrote, adding that Hollander's later years have given his work grandeur akin to Thomas Hardy and Wallace Stevens.Hollander's work as a critic and anthologist has been widely praised from the start. As editor, he has worked on volumes of poets as diverse as Ben Jonson and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; his anthologist's credentials are impeccable. He was widely praised for the expansive American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (1994), two volumes of verse including ballads, sonnets, epic poetry, and even folk songs. Herbert Mitgang of the New York Times praised the range of poets and authors included in the anthology: “Mr. Hollander has a large vision at work in these highly original volumes of verse. Without passing critical judgment, he allows the reader to savor not only the geniuses but also the second-rank writers of the era.” Hollander also worked on the companion volume, American Poetry: The Twentieth Century (2000) with fellow poets and scholars Robert Hass, Carolyn Kizer, Nathaniel Mackey, and Marjorie Perloff.Hollander's prose and criticism has been read and absorbed by generations of readers and writers. Perhaps his most lasting work is Rhyme's Reason. In an interview with Paul Devlin of St. John's University, Hollander described the impetus behind the volume: “Thinking of my own students, and of how there was no such guide to the varieties of verse in English to which I could send them and that would help teach them to notice things about the examples presented—to see how the particular stanza or rhythmic scheme or whatever was being used by the particular words of the particular poem, for example—I got to work and with a speed which now alarms me produced a manuscript for the first edition of the book. I've never had more immediate fun writing a book.” Hollander's other works of criticism include The Work of Poetry (1993), The Poetry of Everyday Life (1997), and Poetry and Music (2003).Hollander died on August 17, 2013 in Branford, Connecticut.-bio via Poetry Foundation Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Considerada una de las poetas más importantes de la literatura inglesa del S XIX, también fue parte del movimiento prerrafaelita, fundado por su hermano, el artista Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Photographer and writer Kyle Cassidy and actor and model Trillian Stars join us for a Bonus Episode to talk about their new Kickstarter, THIS IS ONLY EARTH, MY DEAR – POEMS & PHOTOS (closing May 4, 2024)! We get into their inspiration to make a book combining the poems of Pre-Raphaelite muse/model/artist Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal with photos of Trillian (in a Pre-Raphaelite mode), how the project changed once they began shooting in East London, how they found enough costumes for all the photos they wanted to take, why Lizzie Siddal was dismissed by the peers of her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and how modeling and acting overlap and differ (and why Kyle prefers shooting with actors). We also get into what they've learned from nearly a dozen Kickstarters, what stretch goals they're hoping to reach for this one, and why they want to give Lizzie Siddal the book she never got when she was alive. GO PLEDGE, and follow Kyle on LiveJournal (!?) and Instagram, and follow Trillian on Instagram • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our e-newsletter

Described by some as a, “charming rogue,” Charles Augustus Howell was a dodgy figure in Victorian art circles, in particular London's Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement. There was extortion. There was forgery. And just a whole lot of unsavory bits. Howell was an art dealer by trade who was also known to manipulate those around him so he could acquire works that would establish and increase his reputation – and his financial security. When that didn't work, in the words of biographer Humphrey Hare, "Howell did not hesitate to blackmail." So let's get to know this charming-yet-unsavory character.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Poet Christina Rossetti was born in 1830, the youngest child in an extraordinarily gifted family. Her father, the Italian poet and political exile Gabriele Rossetti, immigrated to England in 1824 and established a career as a Dante scholar and teacher of Italian in London. He married the half-English, half-Italian Frances Polidori in 1826, and they had four children in quick succession: Maria Francesca in 1827, Gabriel Charles Dante (famous under the name Dante Gabriel but always called Gabriel by family members) in 1828, William Michael in 1829, and Christina Georgina on 5 December 1830. In 1831 Gabriele Rossetti was appointed to the chair of Italian at the newly opened King's College. The children received their earliest education, and Maria and Christina all of theirs, from their mother, who had been trained as a governess and was committed to cultivating intellectual excellence in her family. Certainly this ambition was satisfied: Maria was the author of a respected study of Dante, as well as books on religious instruction and Italian grammar and translation; Dante Gabriel distinguished himself as one of the foremost poets and painters of his era; and William was a prolific art and literary critic, editor, and memoirist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Christina became one of the Victorian age's finest poets. She was the author of numerous books of poetry, including Goblin Market and other Poems (1862), The Prince's Progress (1866), A Pageant (1881), and The Face of the Deep (1882).Rossetti's poetry has never disappeared from view. Critical interest in Rossetti's poetry swelled in the final decades of the twentieth century, a resurgence largely impelled by the emergence of feminist criticism; much of this commentary focuses on gender issues in her poetry and on Rossetti as a woman poet. In Rossetti's lifetime opinion was divided over whether she or Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the greatest female poet of the era; in any case, after Browning's death in 1861 readers and critics saw Rossetti as the older poet's rightful successor. The two poets achieved different kinds of excellence, as is evident in Dante Gabriel Rossetti‘s comment on his sister, quoted by William Sharp in The Atlantic Monthly (June 1895): “She is the finest woman-poet since Mrs. Browning, by a long way; and in artless art, if not in intellectual impulse, is greatly Mrs. Browning's superior.” Readers have generally considered Rossetti's poetry less intellectual, less political, and less varied than Browning's; conversely, they have acknowledged Rossetti as having the greater lyric gift, with her poetry displaying a perfection of diction, tone, and form under the guise of utter simplicity.-bio via Poetry Foundation Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Nikki Marmery, author of Lilith, which is published by our friends at Alcove Press.  Topics of conversation include Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Adam as a man who was never satisfied, Diablo IV, Lilith Fair, Lilith as the first woman, logic and the Tower of Babel, The Matrix, and much more.  Copies of Lilith can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING for members of Explore More+.

Opening: The Confessions of St. Augustine, AD 401 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3296/3296-h/3296-h.htm Interviews: Dr. Henry Otgaar Personal Website Maastricht University  Interview 9/21/2023 Dr. Sophie Scott The Brain: 10 things you should know X/Twitter Interview 9/22/2023 Mentions: Bart Simpson: Oh boy, time to repress another memory ⁠Season 14, Episode 17⁠ Dr. Scott mentions the 'Lost in the Mall' study Context: https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/XQze2hIAAGYP8ckl Beyond Lost in the Mall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOpMhYGPajU Explaining memories in the movie Inside Out - where they went wrong: https://theconversation.com/does-pixars-inside-out-show-how-memory-actually-works-43311 Cover art collage featuring Mnemosyne, also titled Lamp of Memory and Ricordanza. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881. “We look at the world once,  in childhood. The rest is memory.” Louise Gluck Any and all background music from the free YouTube Audio Library The Memory Hole Podcast theme is: A Great Darkness Approaches, Can You Feel It? by  ELPHNT  

Episode 24a - The Pool of Stars Lafette Lunacre, our amnesiac elven druid has been walking the paths of this world without knowing anything about who she is. She's heard rumours and seen evidence of legends long past, but that cannot be her. Can it? Join us as she steps alone into the pool of stars, to see what she can remember... Thanks to Mike from the Glass Guarded World for the music Poem was Dante Gabriel Rossetti's ‘Sudden Light' Follow us on the socials @LichSlaps

A note from Amy Sailer for MQR's Fall 2023 issue "Transversions": I started writing about William and Jane Morris just before getting engaged. Their marriage has given me a rich vocabulary to imagine my own. They built a beautiful home together, Red House, which they intended as an artist's utopia, where they, their family, and their community of friends could create the home's medieval-inspired interior decoration, but the experiment fell apart within a few years, in part because Jane fell in love with their friend and fellow Pre-Raphaelite, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. When I visited Red House, the tour guide called it “a house of indecision.” They had so many unfulfilled projects—I could feel their high expectations and the stress it must have caused them. I had the opportunity to work on the project at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, where I learned that Morris & Company revolutionized nineteenth-century embroidery. The first half of the century was dominated by Berlin crewel work, a style that employs cross-stitch to fill out predetermined grid patterns. Morris & Company popularized “art embroidery,” a more creative technique, using a variety of stitches to create more organic designs. Both styles of embroidery lead to repetition and redundancy, but to my eyes, repetitive cross-stitches look monotonous and mechanical, while the repetitive patterns in a piece of art embroidery like Jane and Jenny Morris's “Honeysuckle” look joyful. John Ruskin argues in his essay “The Nature of the Gothic” that redundancy is a sign of pleasure—when we enjoy our work, we keep making more of it. Although we don't know the names of the women who created so much embroidery, I like to think that redundancy serves as a kind of signature.

Our intrepid pansies talk  prompts--but first up it's a scandal of grave proportions.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.  Buy our books:Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, Rebecca Morgan Frank says the poems have "a gift for telling stories . . .  in acts of queer survival." Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bookselling cooperative.Read this fascinating consideration of Elizabeth Siddal in Lucinda Hawksley's "The Tragedy of Art's Greatest Supermodel" for the BBC. And you can view some of Lizzie Siddal's paintings/drawings here: https://lizziesiddal.com/portal/lizzies-art/ A bit more about Sidda: Shel became an artist in her own right and was the only woman to exhibit at an 1857 Pre-Raphaelite exhibition—the first exhibition of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood—which took place in London and was an alternative to the restrictive Royal Academy summer exhibition. A London newspaper review of the exhibition mentioned Siddal by name: “Her drawings display an admiring adoption of all the most startling peculiarities of Mr. Rossetti's style, but they have nevertheless qualities which entitle them to high praise.” The reviewer also expressed admiration for the “high, pure, and independent feeling” of Siddal's rendering of human faces in her drawings. Her painting, Clerk Saunders, was purchased by an American collector in attendance. Significant collections of her artworks can be found at Wightwick Manor and the Ashmolean. Read Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" (the title poem of her first published book) here.  If you're interested in learning a bit more about Christina Rossetti's drawings and verse, watch this short and fabulous video exhibition. Here's the article Aaron references which ranks flavored lube. You're welcome. Learn more about Dante Gabriel Rossetti's paintings here (Tate). Read his poem "Jenny" (one of the poems he buried with Siddal).

Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well received by public and critic since its first edition, in 1889. The volume includes an appraisal of the poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, first printed in 1883, a few months after Rossetti's death; an essay on Thomas Browne, whose Baroque style Pater admired; and a discussion of Measure for Measure, one of Pater's most often reprinted pieces. The second edition, published in 1890, had a few modifications, and is the basis for all other editions of the book. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/librivox1/support

Can't get enough of your love, babe. Or of Dante. This episode we read Dante's New Life , a prelude to The Divine Comedy. Written in prosimetrum, a form that combines poetry and prose, we get to see a little more of Beatrice, and a lot more of young Dante in Florence.Catherine ProjectFrisardi's translation of Vita Nuova (online)Dante Gabriel Rossetti's translation on Librivox (online audiobook)Mark Musa's translation in paperbackCervigni and Vasta's translation in paperback

We're talking to curator Carol Jacobi about ‘The Rossettis', an exhibition of over 150 works at Tate Britain, celebrating the romance and radicalism of Dante Gabriel, Christina and Elizabeth née Siddall.  It's the first ever retrospective of Dante Gabriel Rossetti at the Tate and the largest exhibition of his work in two decades, as well as being the first retrospective of Elizabeth Siddal for 30 years. The exhibition sets out to shed light on just how ground-breaking the Rossetti family's work was, from Christina's poetry (first published when she was just 16) to their paintings and even their designs for clothing and interiors.  Carol convinces detractors that the Pre-Raphaelite movement marked a significant shift towards depicting more intimate and personal subject matter, and argues that a reappraisal of them as highly talented and extraordinary radicals is long overdue. ‘The Rossettis' runs at Tate Britain until 24th September Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

A half-minute is all it takes to be inspired by a poem. Join Warwick poet D.K. McKenzie for thought-provoking poems that are less than a minute long. Hear poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and D.K. McKenzie.

We are staying with the Rossetti's for a while! Today, Sheri welcomes Eleonora Sasso to the podcast to explore some of the key ways to explore the works of D.G. Rossetti including: dualism, symbolism, orientalism and aestheticism. Eleonora Sasso also outlines how the exotic and dream-like elements of Rossetti's works were a significant influence on William Morris.   For more information and to subscribe to the Pre-Raphaelite Society, please visit www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org    All donations towards the maintenance of this podcast are gratefully received: https://gofund.me/60a58f68 

Episode: 2809 Laurence Housman designs an edition of Christina Rossetti's poem Goblin Market.  Today, Goblins, sisterly love, and a masterpiece of book design.

The Rossettis is a new exhibition at Tate Britain devoted to the Rossetti generation; Dante Gabriel, Christina and Elizabeth (née Siddal) following their romance and radicalism through and beyond the Pre-Raphaelite years to their influence on art and design today. This is the first retrospective of Dante Gabriel Rossetti at Tate and the largest exhibition of his iconic pictures in two decades, and the most comprehensive exhibition of Elizabeth Siddal's work for 30 years, featuring rare surviving watercolours and important drawings. RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey caught up with Carol Jacobi one of the exhibition curators just after the press view at Tate Britain to find out more about the work and life of The Rossettis through this new exhibition that showcases around 150 works of art in many forms from drawing, painting and photography to poetry which can be heard in the exhibition. The Rossettis continues at Tate Britain until 24 September 2023 and audio described guided tours by one of Tate's Visitor Engagement Assistants can be booked in advance by either emailing hello@Tate.org.uk or calling 020 7887 8888  More details about the exhibition The Rossettis at Tate Britain can be found by visiting the following pages of the Tate website- https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/the-rossettis Image Shows: Dante Gabriel Rossetti La Ghirlandata 1873 Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London

Met haar magere gestalte, bleke huid, lange rode haren en gelaten gezichtsuitdrukking is Elizabeth Siddal de muze en hét vrouwelijk ideaalbeeld van haar man Dante Gabriel Rossetti en de andere kunstenaars uit zijn kunstenaarskring. Ze wordt in allerlei gedaantes vastgelegd en inspireert ze gedurende haar korte leven en zelfs daarna. Ook na haar dood blijft haar echtgenoot haar schilderen en gaat hij over tot een macabere beslissing: het opgraven van Elizabeths lichaam. Ophelia van Sir John Everett Millais in Tate Britain: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millais-ophelia-n01506 De bruid door Matthijs Maris in de Mesdag Collectie: https://www.demesdagcollectie.nl/nl/collectie/hwm0197 De keukenprinses door Matthijs Maris in de Mesdag Collectie: https://www.demesdagcollectie.nl/nl/collectie/hwm0198 De spiegel door Laura Theresa Alma Tadema-Epps: https://www.demesdagcollectie.nl/nl/collectie/hwm0006 Spelevaren door Lourens Alma Tadema: https://www.demesdagcollectie.nl/nl/collectie/hwm0003 Beate Beatrix van Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Tate Britain: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rossetti-beata-beatrix-n01279 Pentekening Pippa Passes van Elizabeth Siddal in Ashmoleon Museum Oxford: https://collections.ashmolean.org/collection/browse-9148/object/51531 Pentekening Lover listening to music van Elizabeth Siddal in Ashmoleon Museum Oxford: https://collections.ashmolean.org/collection/browse-9148/object/51530

What is that people hate about the Pre-Raphaelites? From the 19th century to the present day their detractors have been remarkably consistent in the language that they have used to the describe their visceral dislike of these artists and their works. Dinah Roe, Greg Tate and Lynda Nead join Matthew Sweet to examine what makes Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his gang such a polarising force in art history. They also delve into the powerful and sensual poetry of Christina Rossetti and Walter Pater's scandalous book about the Renaissance. The Rossettis runs at Tate Britain from April 6th to September 24th 2023 Dr Dinah Roe teaches at Oxford Brookes University and is currently editing the Collected Poems of Christina Rossetti. Dr Gregory Tate teaches at St Andrews University and is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council Professor Lynda Nead teaches at Birkbeck University, London You might also be interested in a Radio 3 Sunday feature presented by Lily Cole called Plot 5779: Unearthing Elizabeth Siddall https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009c67 And Radio 3 listeners wrote a new carol inspired by Christina Rosetti's poem Love Came Down at Christmas https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/309PX0cDlP1wZpy4JkHTL1Y/radio-3-carol-competition-2021 Producer: Torquil MacLeod

A brief introduction to Pre-Raphaelite poetry and painting: the perceptual psychology that it brings us to notice.  A close reading of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's amazing "Woodspurge."  A little bit on his "Blessed Damozel," followed, via a Mr. Magoo-inflected reading of Lewis Carroll's "Mad Gardener's Song," by a more general consideration of rhyme and in Victorian poetry and the question of its prominence or lack thereof: important as well to "The Blessed Damozel," but we ran out of time and may not get to discuss this next class, when we will certainly do Christina Rossetti.

“Look at me with thy large brown eyes, Philip, my King.”

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Sally leaves a frosty boat and travels to Gloucestershire to meet her friend and fellow author Alice Jolly. They talk about Alice's epic experimental novel, Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile, which is written in rolling free verse and recounts the life of an elderly maidservant in the Stroud Valley of the 19th century.  They listen to clips from an extraordinary dramatisation of the book, and discuss spiritual autobiography, Christina Rossetti, the Psalms, and how the marginalised and dispossessed can find a posthumous voice in literature. Further Reading Sally's friend Alice Jolly has won the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize and the PEN/Ackerley Prize. Her novel Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile was runner up for The Rathbones Folio Prize  and longlisted for The Ondaatje Prize. She was awarded an O. Henry Award in 2021. You can find her books here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Alice-Jolly/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AAlice+Jolly The dramatization of Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile was created by the Red Dog Theatre Company, Jude Emmet, Kate Abraham and Simon Turner. You can find it here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4lD6TzgomEztr9b8sU1CnY https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Mary-Ann-Sate-Imbecile-Audiobook/B0B4TW92RL The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797/98 and published in Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems co-written with William Wordsworth; a revolutionary work considered to signal the beginning of British Romantic literature. This long poem recounts the experiences of a sailor who, in one of the most famous tales in literature, brings a curse upon himself and his shipmates when he kills an albatross. At the beginning of the poem, the mariner stops a guest on his way to a wedding, insisting that his story must be heard. You can find the poem here, in a revised edition published in 1834: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834 Christina Rossetti was a 19th century English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, celebrated for the deceptive simplicity of her lyrical language.  She was sister to the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and part of the circle which formed around the artistic movement known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Some of her best-known poems can be found here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/christina-rossetti Puddleglum appears in the children's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia by the Oxford writer C.S. Lewis; he's a principal character in The Silver Chair and is mentioned briefly at the end of The Last Battle.  Puddleglum is a "Marsh-wiggle"; they live in wigwams close to the river. Lewis claimed he based the character on his gardener. The producer of the podcast is Andrew Smith: https://www.fleetingyearfilms.com The extra voice in this episode is Emma Fielding If you would like to support this podcast and help pay for its expenses, please visit - https://gofund.me/d5bef397 Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far. Special thanks go to Violet Henderson, Kris Dyer, and Maeve Magnus.  

We have bar wars, halloween costumes, a Boston Celtic legend and Cliff in a speedo. If you can't find comedy gold in that, then we just can't help you here at Cheers Weekly. So go find Norm a birthday present, dress up in your favorite Dante Gabriel Rossetti costume and enjoy "Bar Wars V: The Final Judgment" and "Where Have All The Floorboards Gone?" (S10E7 starts 12:15 / S10E8 starts 36:35)

Pages 900 - 906 │ Penelope, part VIII │ Read by Bonnie GreerBonnie Greer was born in Chicago's west side. Although she initially pursued a career in law, she soon changed direction and began studying theatre, under the supervision of David Mamet, Elia Kazan and Steve Carter. In addition to award-winning stage, radio and screen plays, Bonnie Greer has written a number of novels and books, some of which focus on the lives of artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Marilyn Monroe, Ella Fitzgerald and Langston Hughes. Bonnie Greer has lived in the UK since 1986, but is a committed Franchophile and has spent a great deal of time in France, Paris and, indeed, at S&Co.Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bonn1eGreer*Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-companySUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoIn addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit.*Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.comBuy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulyssesFind out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/homeAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.netBuy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpSVisit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ Music production by Adrien Chicot.Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The manuscripts of many of the best poems of Rossetti were buried with his wife. Friends prevailed upon him to allow them to be exhumed --- and these poems, once buried with the dead, are now a treasure of the living. (Volume 42, Harvard Classics) Rossetti born May 12, 1828.  

Introductory note on Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Wikipedia)  

In this episode I'm joined by Dr Dominique Gracia, who had worked on repetitions and revisions, and adaptation theory. We discuss the influence of Sherlock Holmes on modern TV detectives in series such as Sherlock and Vienna Blood. We observe the ways in which we see works through adaptations, and how neo-Victorian works may influence how we think or perceive the nineteenth century. We also discuss hidden stories about Victorian female detectives, and how Holmes' legacy persists today.About my guest: Dominique is an independent scholar who's currently Chief of Staff for the Director of UCL's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Her research focuses on repetitions and revisions, from Dante Gabriel Rossetti's double-works to the pot-boiling of popular fiction. Her most recent publications focus on early female detectives and Sherlock Holmes' influence on modern TV detectives, and she is currently writing a collection of Neo-Victorian short stories featuring a Welsh female detective in East London.For more information on Dominique's work, check out the details below:https://exeter.academia.edu/DominiqueGraciaCheck out Dominique's suggestions:Kim Newman - Professor Moriaty: The Hound of the D'UrbervillesAnthony Horowitz - MoriartyNev March - Murder in Old Bombay: A MysteryJ.C. Briggs - The Murder of Patience BrookeHeather Redmond - A Dickens of a Crime SeriesEpisode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

In today's Love Letters to... we celebrate Fanny Eaton, model and muse for the Pre-Raphaelite artists of the Royal Academy in the 19th century. Jamaican-born and from a diverse ancestry, Eaton's distinctive beauty shifted the way that prominent British painters like Simeon Solomon and Dante Gabriel Rossetti represented characters of color in their work. Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Era il 1848, nella Londra vittoriana quando il giovane pittore, figlio di immigrati italiani, Dante Gabriel Rossetti in visita alla mostra della Royal Academy vide l'opera di William Holman Hunt. Così nacque la Confraternita Preraffaellita. Puoi trovare le immagini, leggere il testo di questo podcast e tanto altro, su https://quellodiarte.com/2022/01/17/prb-la-confraternita-preraffaellita/Se volete scrivere a Quello di Arte l'email è quellodiarte@gmail.comPlaylistMichelangelo Mammoliti, Walkman Main, 2019

Ouvrages de référence : Régine Le Jan, Histoire de la France : Origines et premier essor, 480-1180. Crédits d'œuvres : Kaamelott, Alexandre Astier ;La vie au temps des Châteaux forts, Philippe Vergeot et Benoît Renard ;Les rois maudits, Réalisé par Claude Barma et adapté du roman éponyme de Maurice Druon.  Photo : Peinture de Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Arthur et Lancelot sur la tombe d'Arthur, 1855,British Museum.  Conception, production et réalisation: Maxime BAZILE https://twitter.com/BLMaxime?lang=fr Support the show (https://www.facebook.com/histoireetactu/)

Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah 1855 Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882 Bequeathed by Beresford Rimington Heaton 1940 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05228 The stories of Genesis reveal the underlying hand of Providence that insists (tragically) on the bloodlines over human emotions and relationships.In the tears of Jacob we sense the intimations he already senses for the temporality of his love for Rachel as we also see in Dante's love of Beatrice (and his eventual realization that this leads to the lev of the divine).So too, (lehavdil) the way Norman Jewison (midrashically!) connects the love of Ronny Cammareri (Nicolas Cage) for Loretta (Sher) in Moonstruck (1987). As Loretta and Ronny go to the Met, to see Puccini's La Boheme.... we are given Mimì's famous “Donde lieta,” whereupon. Loretta cries. Mimì's resignation of her love for Rodolfo echoing the way Loretta feels regarding her pending marriage and true love for Ronny. In this moment, the opera itself reflects the inner turmoil of the film's characters.It our pericope Jacob embracing, kissing Rachel then crying is just such a tragic moment.

Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti (/rəˈzɛti/),[1] was an English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator, and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Huntand John Everett Millais. Rossetti was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement.Bio via Wikipedia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We talk Dante Gabriel Rossetti, events to stream from round the world and talk to the artist whose work is lighting up the brand new Battersea Power Station tube Rossetti's Portraits at The Holburne Museum, Bath https://www.holburne.org/rossettis-portraits-coming-soon/ 24th September till 9th January Sunil Gupta: The New Pre-Raphaelites at The Holburne Museum, Bath https://www.holburne.org/sunil-gupta-the-new-pre-raphaelites-coming-soon/ 24th September till 19th January Marquee TV : https://welcome.marquee.tv Listeners can claim their 50% subscription discount here https://marquee.tv/culture Alexandre de Cunha at Battersea Power Station Tube - see Art on the Underground https://art.tfl.gov.uk Chelsea Flower Show https://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-chelsea-flower-show 21st to 26th September Charlotte Smithson with YSP X The Oak Project https://ysp.org.uk/events/ysp-x-the-oak-project-at-rhs-chelsea-flower-show-london-with-new-commission-charlotte-smithson With thanks to: Martin Miller's Gin : https://www.martinmillersgin.com Listeners can claim their 10% discount (up to the value of £6) by using the code breakout2021 at checkout. This will be applied to any 70cl bottle of qualifying Martin Miller's lines - the original, Westbourne Strength, Summerful Gin, Winterful Gin, and 35cl 9 Moons Special Cask Reserve - purchased on www.masterofmalt.com website only. Valid until 31 October 2021 or while limited promotional stock lasts. Not applicable in conjunction with any other offer. 18+ and subject to Master of Malt's standard consumer terms of business. Edited and Produced by Audio Coast

The Black Presence in British Portraiture discussed in this episode of this BP2 Podcast is Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1865–6) The Beloved (‘The Bride') ' from the collection of Tate Britain, London, England Chaired by Gretchen Gerzina Paul Murray Kendall Professor of Biography at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Selected by Dr Jan Marsh writer and curator Assisted by Dr Caroline Bressey cultural and historical geographer Readings read by Ebun Culwin Music Minuet by Ignatius Sancho revised and arranged by Ben Park Musicians Cello- Rebecca Jordan, Violin- Buffy Rowe, Vocal Sarah Dacey , Bass and Harpsichord-Ben Park Readings from Song of Solomon Chapters 1, 3 and 4 Psalm 45 @TheBP2Podcast

Introductory note on Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Wikipedia)

The manuscripts of many of the best poems of Rossetti were buried with his wife. Friends prevailed upon him to allow them to be exhumed --- and these poems, once buried with the dead, are now a treasure of the living. (Volume 42, Harvard Classics) Rossetti born May 12, 1828.

Mark Samuels Lasner is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delaware Library, and one of the world's great book collectors. The Mark Samuels Lasner Collection focuses on British literature and art from 1850 to 1900, with an emphasis on the Pre-Raphaelites and writers and illustrators of the 1890s. It comprises more than 9,500 books, letters, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and artworks, including many items signed by such figures as Oscar Wilde, George Eliot, Max Beerbohm, William Morris, Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Aubrey Beardsley. In 2016 Mark donated his collection, worth more than $10 million, to the University of Delaware. It's the largest and most valuable gift in the Library's history.  We connected via Zoom to talk about Mark's childhood and his incipient interest in England and the late Victorian period, his early book collecting - the how and why of it - the extraordinarily talented and well dressed essayist, caricaturist, and critic Max Beerbohm; fun, friendships, favourite booksellers, fashion and much more.   

The seventh episode travels back to May 5th, 2020, with the recreation of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Veronica Veronese, 1872, Delaware Art Museum. Props, staging, and balance all play a major role in the behind-the-scenes story for this picture.  This episode is equal parts history and costume creation.See the Post - https://www.instagram.com/p/B_0Amb8jwmF/ See the Teaser - https://www.instagram.com/p/B_yZXw_BIby/See the Extra - https://www.instagram.com/p/B_0BO0hjrbE/ Follow her Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/portraitpersonas/Follow the Podcast - https://portraitpersonas.transistor.fm/subscribeLearn More!About the art - https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/veronica-veronese/AQG3WiaU5I7NMA?hl=enThe Rossetti Archive - http://www.rossettiarchive.org/Britannica Page for Rossetti - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dante-Gabriel-RossettiLady Lilith - http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/s205.rap.htmlDelaware Art Museum - https://delart.org/The ModelsElizabeth Siddal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_SiddalJane Morris - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_MorrisFanny Cornforth - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_CornforthAlexa Wilding - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Wilding

How did John Keats influence Christina Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites? In this episode of our Writ in Water series inspired by John Keats' epitaph – ‘Here lies one whose name was writ in water' – we talk to Dr Dinah Roe about Christina Rossetti, her sonnet 'On Keats' - and more widely about how Keats influenced the Pre-Raphaelite artists. This includes her brothers, Dante Gabriel and William Michael, fighting over who was better - Keats or Shelley? ----more---- Subscribe to the podcast for all new episodes.     This episode was was recorded on 23rd February 2021, the bicentenary of Keats' death in Rome. Click here for more on Dinah Roe. Listen to Dinah read and discuss Dante Gabriel Rossetti's own ‘Writ in Water' sonnet, ‘John Keats'  Read about 2021's Keats-Shelley Prize. Read about 2021's Young Romantics Prize Texts. ‘On Keats' by Christina Rossetti This podcast was written and presented by James Kidd. The KS Podcast theme tune is ‘Androids Always Escape' by Chris Zabriskie. Visit http://chriszabriskie.com/ Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to us on YouTube

In this mini Keats-Shelley Prize Podcast, Dr Dinah Roe reads and discusses two poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that quote John Keats' epitaph 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water'. The first was also a sonnet ('John Keats'); the second a fragment included in a letter to the other Rossetti brother, William Michael. ----more---- Our brief chat touched on Dante Gabriel's aspiration to out-Cockney John Keats in the rhyming department. This turned our attention to Betty Askwith's Appendix (literary Appendix that is) in her biography of Keats which asked: did Keats speak with a Cockney accent?   Read about 2021's Keats-Shelley Prize. Read about 2021's Young Romantics Prize. Visit the Keats-Shelley Blog for more Prize Resources, including poems, articles and podcasts. Texts.  'John Keats' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 'Writ in Water' fragment by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Subscribe to the podcast for all new episodes.   Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to us on YouTube This podcast was written and presented by James Kidd. The KS Podcast theme tune is ‘Androids Always Escape' by Chris Zabriskie. Visit http://chriszabriskie.com/

Lizzie Siddall was the 19th century’s proto-supermodel. Her beauty inspired the artists and poets of her generation, who presented her as a mysterious, fairytale creature. We tend to know her through the filter of the men who painted her, but in the archives of the Ashmolean Museum, you can encounter the real Lizzie. Behind the silent muse of Pre-Raphaelite art was a vibrant, creative woman, who was herself a talented poet and artist. In this episode, meet one of history’s most famous models, on her own terms. Two men in a boat and a woman punting, Elizabeth Siddal (1829–1862) View this onlineElizabeth Siddal playing a Stringed Instrument, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) View this onlineElizabeth Siddal playing Double Pipes, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) View this onlineIf you want to take a closer look at the artworks mentioned in this episode, you can view them at the links above. Visit the podcast page on the Ashmolean website: ashmolean.org/objects-out-loudHosted by Lucie Dawkins, with Caroline Palmer and the voices of Josie Richardson and Sid Sagar. With poems by Lizzie Siddall, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Alfred Lord Tennyson.The producer is Lucie Dawkins.About Objects Out Loud: From a magician who inspired Shakespeare, and poems woven into Japanese prints, to manuscripts illuminated with the ancient love story of Layla and Majnun, this new podcast series will delve into the poetry and literature hidden in the collections at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

In questo Episodio Carlo Colognese accompagna l'ascoltatore nella rivisitazione di due Canti della Divina Commedia, il Quarto e il Quinto.Coerentemente con l'impostazione data all' omaggio che ha voluto rendere al Sommo Poeta nel settecentesimo anniversario della morte, del Quarto Canto Colognese presenta però una sintesi ragionata ma non la lettura. L' intento del curatore infatti è quello di condividere con gli ascoltatori non già una rivisitazione completa dei cento Canti in cui si suddivide l'opera ma una selezione, orientata secondo criteri personali, focalizzata su temi, personaggi ed emozioni suscettibili di meglio aderire al comune sentire di oggi.Per l' appunto nel Quinto Canto, dove si scende nel girone dei lussuriosi, Dante avrà uno degli incontri più emotivamente coinvolgenti, tanto da lasciarlo tramortito. Il poeta giunto nel secondo cerchio dell' Inferno vi trova una delle coppie di amanti più celebri della letteratura mondiale, Paolo e Francesca, precipitati per via dei sensi in un vortice di perdizione in cui si intrecciano Eros e Thanatos, l'amore e la morte. L' amore li danna perché fedifraghi e quindi meritevoli di punizione divina: un tema, questo, che secoli dopo verrà ripreso e sviluppato da romanticismo e simbolismo.Nell’immagine: Dante Gabriel Rossetti “Paolo and Francesca da Rimini” (particolare), 1867, National Gallery of Victoria, MelbourneFonte: artsandculture.google.comEpisodi precedenti:Parte TerzaParte SecondaParte Prima

In questo Episodio Carlo Colognese accompagna l'ascoltatore nella rivisitazione di due Canti della Divina Commedia, il Quarto e il Quinto. Coerentemente con l'impostazione data all' omaggio che ha voluto rendere al Sommo Poeta nel settecentesimo anniversario della morte, del Quarto Canto Colognese presenta però una sintesi ragionata ma non la lettura. L' intento del curatore infatti è quello di condividere con gli ascoltatori non già una rivisitazione completa dei cento Canti in cui si suddivide l'opera ma una selezione, orientata secondo criteri personali, focalizzata su temi, personaggi ed emozioni suscettibili di meglio aderire al comune sentire di oggi. Per l' appunto nel Quinto Canto, dove si scende nel girone dei lussuriosi, Dante avrà uno degli incontri più emotivamente coinvolgenti, tanto da lasciarlo tramortito. Il poeta giunto nel secondo cerchio dell' Inferno vi trova una delle coppie di amanti più celebri della letteratura mondiale, Paolo e Francesca, precipitati per via dei sensi in un vortice di perdizione in cui si intrecciano Eros e Thanatos, l'amore e la morte. L' amore li danna perché fedifraghi e quindi meritevoli di punizione divina: un tema, questo, che secoli dopo verrà ripreso e sviluppato da romanticismo e simbolismo. Nell’immagine: Dante Gabriel Rossetti “Paolo and Francesca da Rimini” (particolare), 1867, National Gallery of Victoria, MelbourneFonte: artsandculture.google.com Episodi precedenti:Parte TerzaParte SecondaParte Prima

I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before,— How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turn'd so, Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before? And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our love restore In death's despite, And day and night yield one delight once more?

ARTRIBUNE PODCAST ALLA GALLERIA NAZIONALE DI ROMACon le sue 20mila opere, la Galleria Nazionale di Roma custodisce un'importante collezione di arte italiana e straniera dall'Ottocento a oggi, toccando così i principali autori, linguaggi e correnti degli ultimi due secoli: neoclassicismo, impressionismo, avanguardie storiche, arte del secondo Dopoguerra, le ultime tendenze. Ludovico Pratesi si immerge tra le sale del museo soffermandosi e raccontando per noi alcune delle sue opere più celebri e significative per gli sviluppi e gli esiti dell'arte contemporanea – come il Grande Rosso di Alberto Burri –, illustrando anche alcuni particolari dialoghi tra opere diverse per cronologia e medium: tra tutti, quello tra il Ritratto di Jane Morris di Dante Gabriel Rossetti e un ritratto fotografico di Vanessa Beecroft.

Episode: 2809 Laurence Housman designs an edition of Christina Rossetti's poem Goblin Market.  Today, Goblins, sisterly love, and a masterpiece of book design.

Poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti was obsessed with wombats, as were his siblings and the members of the Pre-Raphaelite movement he founded. Top, the wombat Rossetti acquired in 1869, became legendary in their circle, inspiring poems and drawings and myths that linger to this day. But as so often happens, there was a disconnect between the idea of a wombat, and the real creature that all-too-briefly shared Rossetti’s home.

He was born into an Italian family steeped in a rich cultural and literary heritage which greatly influenced him throughout his life. Often torn between either being an artist or a poet, he chose both. In this episode, we'll talk about Dante Gabriel Rossetti, one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, as well as one of his most famous works, The Day Dream.

We might not be behind in the last minute of the final quarter, but we're still gonna throw a Hail Mary. This episode is all about a very important figure in the art realm - Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Venerated for centuries, the Madonna has inspired many different artists and composers to create beautiful works regarding many aspects of her life. So we’ve decided to take this episode to venerate the artists and composers behind these gorgeous works!   Art: Michelangelo (1475-1564): Pieta (1498-1499) Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510): Mary with the Child and Singing Angels (1477) Jan van Eyck (1390-1441): The Ghent Altarpiece: Virgin Mary (1432) Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1848-1849)   Music: Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179): Ave Maria Josquin Deprez (c.1450-1521): Ave Maria ... Virgo Serena (c.1475) Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901): Quattro pezzi sacri: Ave Maria (1889)

Christina Rossetti's most famous poetry collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems, appeared in 1862, when she was 31. It received widespread critical praise, establishing her as the foremost female poet of the time in England. The poem Goblin Market is one of Rossetti's best known. Although it is ostensibly about two sisters' misadventures with goblins, critics have interpreted the piece in a variety of ways, seeing it as an allegory about temptation and salvation, a commentary on Victorian gender roles and female agency, and a work about erotic desire and social redemption. Rossetti was a volunteer worker from 1859 to 1870 at the St. Mary Magdalene House of Charity in Highgate, a refuge for former prostitutes, and it is suggested that Goblin Market may have been inspired by the "fallen women" she came to know. Some works lend themselves to being illustrated better than others, and Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market has proven irresistible to artists since its first publication. Her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, contributed several illustrations for the poem’s first issue.  Following those, the woodcut illustrations of Laurence Houseman, and finally the illustrations of Arthur Rackham, which have become nearly as famous as the poem itself; wildly suggestive, they transform what many perceived to be a children’s story into a tale with very adult concerns. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti…we begin….  

22 December 2019 The Fourth Sunday of Advent Matthew 1:18-24 + Homily 14 Minutes 59 Seconds Link to the Readings: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/122219.cfm (New American Bible, Revised Edition) From the parish bulletin:   I have long been of the opinion that preachers should avoid allusions to the painting “The Light of the World” by William Holman Hunt. This is not because it is inferior in any way. It is a tour de force of an artist’s craft and a prime example of the Pre-Raphaelite school that he began around 1848 with John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, trying to revive the mystical aura they thought had become somewhat lost in the cold rationalism of the Renaissance. They were  a lively and amusing coterie. Father Neville of the Oratory was offended when Millais smoked a pipe in the presence of John Henry Newman as he painted his great portrait of the saint. But His Eminence did not mind at all and was eminently amused.    My hesitation about Hunt’s painting of Christ knocking on a door is that it has become a cliché. It has been copied countless times, and like Leonardo’s Last Supper, it is seen so much that it is robbed of its force and even suffers the degradation of reproduction on coffee mugs and tea towels. Hunt’s painting has further been badly caricatured, as in the modern version by Warner Sallman, in a descent from cliché to kitsch. But clichés become clichés because of their innate truth, even if they are responsible for dreary platitudes from the pulpit.    Hence, the Advent days make reference to Hunt’s painting unavoidable, for its symbolism puts on the painter’s canvas, with color and linseed oil, what the scribe’s ink wrote on parchment: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with me” (Revelation 3:20).    At the risk of being tiresome, it needs to be pointed out that there is no exterior handle on the door, for it is the door of the human soul, which has to be opened from the inside. The door is covered with the thistles of sin. This is the moment when free will decides to open or shut. Free imagination assumes that the light Christ carries is seeping through cracks in the door’s rough wood, just as prophetic voices in Advent hint at a great Light about to shine  on the world.    Over three centuries before the Incarnation, the Cynic philosopher Diogenes supposedly carried a  lamp through the streets, “looking for an honest man.” Since Christ is Wisdom itself, the lamp he carries in portraiture is not a searchlight. It is a reflection of the light of divinity that surrounds his divine head, for he is “the radiance of God’s glory” (Hebrews 1:3).    On Christmas, the Church chants the words first uttered at Nicaea in Turkey by bishops who in many instances had been battered by darkened intellects: “Light from Light.” That is not a cliché.

What makes an artistic partnership? Where is it healthy and how can it be destructive? In this episode we find out how powerful partnerships can transcend time and place and cause the people involved to generate some of the most powerful works in history. We’ll hear the tragic tale of Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and explore the joyful friendship between Picasso and Lee Miller. Artist Julian Bell explains the stormy relationship between Van Gogh and Gaugin and we hear from Dalziel and Scullion on how they work together creativity.

Part 1 in our Pre Raphaelite Sisters series where we delve into the lives of the muses, lovers, wives and artists who navigated this male dominated artistic movement which was ruled by romantic chivalry. These women were often object of beauty fulfilling a certain male fantasy, but who were they really?In this episode I look into the life of Lizzie Siddal, whose history is dominated by mythic stories, in the hope of revealing who she really was as a passionate artist, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a woman of her time. SourcesPre Raphaelite Sisterhood by Jan Marshlizziesiddal.comTate Britain Pre Raphaelite Sister exhibition, National Portrait Gallery London

You think you know what art is? Oh, you sweet summer child. What you need is to see the revolutionary Pre-Raphaelites with a style of painting that will blow your mind out of the water with its innovation and middle finger to the hoighty-toighty upper class. They will...paint models in natural light?SOPHIE - DID YOU GIVE ME THE WRONG INFORMATION TO WRITE?Come and listen to us talk about becoming the establishment you rebel against, whether or not you can have both authenticity and success and the podcast coins a new measure of quality.Follow You Know What I Like...? on Twitter (@YKWILPodcast)Like You Know What I Like...? on FacebookMusic: http://www.purple-planet.comCover Art: Andrew Losq

Lecture 335 (6 July 1993) Full title: "Scholarly Editing in Virtual Space, With Special Reference to the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti"

Lecture 339 (14 July 1993) Full title: "Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Visual and Verbal Encounters"

Med inspiration från tidig renässans och medeltid, skapade prerafaeliterna konst som var motsägelsefull på många sätt. Hur kunde den rymma religiositet, radikala idéer, sex och natur på samma gång? På Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde i Stockholm har det i helgen öppnat en ny utställning, "Edward Burne-Jones Prerafaeliterna och Norden". Det är den första utställningen i Skandinavien med konst och design av konstnären Edward Burne-Jones, som var elev till en av en förgrundsgestalterna bland prerafaeliterna, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Burne-Jones fick inflytande i Norden, både med sin konst och den roll han hade inom Arts and crafts-rörelsen. Konstnären Helena Blomqvist, som inspirerats av Prerafaeliterna, kommer till studion tillsammans med P1 Kulturs konstkritiker Cecilia Blomberg för ett samtal om en tämligen udda, men fantasieggande konstströmning. Det har varit stor premiärhelg på de svenska teaterscenerna och P1 Kultur har varit på Göteborgs stadsteater, där vår kritiker Mia Gerdin har sett Eugene ONeills familjedrama "Långdags färd mot natt" i regi av Emil Graffman. Dessutom har teaterkritikern Jenny Teleman varit på Dramaten - hela två nya uppsättningar: Arthur Millers Häxjakten med Alexander Mørk-Eidem som regissör, samt Nadja Weiss som satt upp Jon Fosses version av Euripides tragedi Ifigenia i Aulis. Inga nya kulturreservat och mindre än hälften så många nya byggnadsminnen som tidigare. Det kan vår reporter Joakim Silverdal berätta om i dagens reportage om läget när det gäller bevarandet av landets kulturmiljö. I exempelvis Västerbottens län får vi backa tre år i tiden för att hitta det senaste byggnadsminnet ett gammalt bönhus i byn Missenträsk. Och så till sist en OBS-essä och är det latinisten och skribenten Martina Björk som läst Ingvar Björkesons Ovidius-tolkningar och reflekterar över skaldens ytterst medvetna jämrande, hans klagande exilpoesi har ekat genom dessa millennier och funnit nya läsare runt om världen. Men finns det inget ände på hans bitterhet? Programledare: Gunnar Bolin Producent: Maria Götselius

Podcast 112 – Marjana Semkina interview | Iamthemorning 'The Bell' Welcome to the Kscope Podcast and thank you very much for your continued support. In this episode Billy shares an iced banana coffee in a street-café with the award-winning Marjana Semkina to talk about Dante Gabriel Rossetti, coffin bells and premature burials - as well as the new LP 'The Bell' from iamthemorning (out August 2nd). PLUS some spacey Anathema news, a rarity from The Anchoress, and, if you can handle it, the Greg Brimson take on the O.R.k. track Signals Erased.   On this podcast Iamthemorning – music from The Bell "Song of Psyche" "Freak Show" "Six Feet" "Ghost of a Story" http://kscopemusic.com/iatm   The Anchoress – music from Confessions of a Romance Novelist "What Goes Around (Acoustic)" https://kscopemusic.com/anc   O.R.k. – from Signals Erased EP "Signals Erased (Greg Brimson Remix)" https://kscopemusic.com/ork

In this episode Dr Laura-Jane Foley meets Geoffrey Munn, a writer, jewellery specialist and presenter on BBC Antiques Roadshow, who recounts an incredible art detective story. Geoffrey shares his forty-year quest to track down a missing one-of-a-kind watch designed by pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 -1882). To comment on the show please write to @laurajanefoley on Twitter and use the hashtag #MyFavouriteWorkOfArtPresented and produced by Dr Laura-Jane FoleyRecorded and edited at Wisebuddah, LondonTitle Music - 'Blue' from Colours by Dimitri Scarlato See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 “A sonnet,” said the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “is a moment’s monument.” But who invented the sonnet? Who brought it to prominence? How has it changed over the years? And why does this form continue to be so compelling? In this episode of the History of Literature, we take a brief look at one of literature's most enduring forms, from its invention in a Sicilian court to the wordless sonnet and other innovative uses. Professor Bill walked us through a sonnet by Robert Hayden in Episode 97 - Dad Poetry (with Professor Bill). One of the world's great sonneteers, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, had her moment in Episode 95 - The Runaway Poets - The Triumphant Love Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lovers whose first words to one another magically form a perfect sonnet, found one another in Episode 53 - Romeo and Juliet.  Support the show at patreon.com/literature. Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna and Tom discuss the Victiorian poet, Christina Rossetti. A member of the remarkable Rossetti family (her brother was the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) her most famous poem is probably "Goblin Market", which is still in print today. She spent much of her life unhappy, in emotional turmoil, wrestling with her personal demons, but always creating prolific amounts of poetry. As poets (especially women poets) of the Victorian era go, her name is one of the most well known.   Music by Stefan Kartenburg, featuring Dimitri Artmenko on strings, and it's from dig.ccMixter.  Our website is gallusgirlsandwaywardwomen.weebly.com, and you can find us on Twitter @gallusgirlstory

Kirsty Ferry's spooky timeslip Rossetti series is guaranteed to delight anyone who enjoys ghost stories, art, and romance in evocative settings. She's got great tales to tell about the ghosts she shares her workplace with as well as weird stories about the Pre Raphelite artists. Just why did Rossetti dig up his wife's grave? Read on for full shownotes and a transcript of our conversation.   Show Notes Summary In this interview you'll discover: The defining moment that got Kirsty writing ghost stories. The collection of ghosts she shares her work with. The darker side of the Pre Raphaelites - why Rossetti raided his wife's coffin. Where to go to catch the Goth vibe of Kirsty's books Kirsty's favourite binge reads Why she won't be reading the latest Bridget Jones  Kirsty can be found at www.rosethornpress.co.uk and blogging at https://rosethornramblings.wordpress.com/ And on Facebook and Twitter https://www.facebook.com/kirsty.ferry.author/ For more detail, a full transcript follows:  A "close as" rendering of our full conversation.     Jenny: And now to Kirsty:  Hello there Kirsty, and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us. Kirsty: It's very exciting! First time I've done a Skype interview and first time I've done a Podcast! So thank you.   Jenny: The three books in the Rossetti series take their name from the most famous of the pre Raphaelites, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and they all work around ghostly apparitions from last century – the world of the unquiet spirits – so I'm wondering . . Was there a ONCE UPON A TIME when you were fascinated with ghost stories? Kirsty: Yes! I've always loved ghost stories and probably the thing that started off this slight obsession was picking up Wuthering Heights when I was about twelve or thirteen.  It's a wonderful book with so many layers to it, but the crux is the love Heathcliff has for Cathy For most of the book she's dead and she's a ghost knocking on the window trying to get his attention.  He spends all that time missing her and wanting her. That idea of the unquiet spirit, of unfinished business, that started me off of wanting to write something like that, as good as that, so people would still wanting to be reading it many years into the future. So I think if there was a defining moment it would be Wuthering Heights.   Jenny: There seems to be a theme here because you've teased that in your day job you share a building “with an eclectic collection of ghosts, which can prove rather interesting.”  We'd love to hear more  about this collection . .  Kirsty: I work in a university in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Our offices are in a Georgian terrace of five buildings where they've knocked all the walls out so you can walk through this building drifting through walls like ghosts do. A few years ago I said to a girl I worked with “Do you think this building is haunted?” and she said yes, she had actually seen a lady walking along the second floor corridor.  She was all dressed in grey and she thought she looked like a nurse. When we looked into the history of the building it had been used as a convalescent home. We did a little bit of investigation  and found she was called Elizabeth and she told us what year she worked there and she said she helped people. When we dug into the records a little bit we found there was a lady called Elizabeth who worked there in those years in the convalescence home just like she had told us, so that was quite creepy. There was also things the cleaners tell us. They were working in an office at the far end of the building and they saw a man walk in they didn't recognise so they went running into the office they'd seen him enter to ask who he was and what he wanted and you can guess what I am going to say next – there was nobody there. But they saw a pair of legs going the upstairs.  Just legs, no body, no head,  just legs going up the stairs.

What makes a great Mother's day gift? An ashtray made of matchsticks? Waking your Mom up early so she can witness the destruction of her kitchen? Yes and yes. Plus, Larry talks about the tear-jerker classic movie "I Remember Mama" and then he recites "A Little While" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. http://LarryMillerShow.com Quote of the week: "Right after that, they probably slice your head off." Producer: Colonel Jeff Fox

What makes a great Mother's day gift? An ashtray made of matchsticks? Waking your Mom up early so she can witness the destruction of her kitchen? Yes and yes. Plus, Larry talks about the tear-jerker classic movie "I Remember Mama" and then he recites "A Little While" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. http://LarryMillerShow.com Quote of the week: "Right after that, they probably slice your head off." Producer: Colonel Jeff Fox

Professor Lynda Nead has curated an exhibition at the Foundling Museum in London which looks at depictions of "the Fallen Woman" in Victorian England by artists including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Richard Redgrave, George Frederic Watts and Thomas Faed. The display includes a specially-commissioned sound installation by musician and composer Steve Lewinson. Lynda Nead joins Anne McElvoy along with James Bartholomew, an historian of the Welfare State who has studied Victorian responses to poverty. Gillian Tett is managing editor of the New York office of The Financial Times. She reported on the financial crisis of 2007-8 in close detail, but before she became a journalist Tett trained as an anthropologist. Her latest book, The Silo Effect, combines reportage with anthropology to identify the deep structure in our thinking that contributed to the crisis: the tendency to organize things into discrete silos. Steve Silberman is a Wired reporter and author of an article on "The Geek Syndrome" which went viral. He talks to Anne McElvoy about why we need to think about autism in a new way, along with Matthew Smith, an historian of psychiatry at the University of Strathclyde and former Radio 3 New Generation Thinker.

The collection of Pre-Raphaelite artworks at Birmingham Museums Trust is renowned throughout the world. It includes more than 3000 paintings, drawings and prints as well as unique examples of decorative art and design.Victoria Osborne, Curator of Fine Art, faced a major challenge when she was asked by Mike Gibbs, Publisher of History West Midlands to choose a favourite piece.Surprisingly, Victoria did not select one of the collection’s iconic works. Instead, she presents a small but very fine work by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1783-1854) of Saint Cecilia designed to illustrate Alfred Tennyson’s poem The Palace of Art. KETWORDS: Pre-Raphaelites, Art, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, BMAG

Background on the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's most famous poem.

Have you ever felt like your passions were controlling you? And do owners really grow to resemble their pets? The third of my #5MinuteStories gatecrashes a wild party thrown by Marlon Brando in his Sixth Avenue apartment, and follows Dante Gabriel Rossetti into Highgate Cemetry to dig up his dead wife.   Listen to the story […]

With Mark Lawson In Meryl Streep's latest film, Hope Springs, she and Tommy Lee Jones play a middle-aged couple whose marriage has become stale, after more than three decades together. They attend a series of therapy sessions in an attempt to revive their relationship. Writer and critic Gaylene Gould reviews. The work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood has been brought together in a major exhibition, for the first time in nearly 30 years. The show at Tate Britain aims to display the breadth, influence and radical intentions of the group, and includes major works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt. Rossetti biographer Dinah Roe reviews. Daniel Evans, Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres, discusses his new production of Macbeth and why he has no fear of saying the play's name. As a new documentary, released today, charts how independent record shops are disappearing from our high streets, David Hepworth recalls the very specific pleasures of hours spent flicking through the racks of LPs and singles. Producer Claire Bartleet.

Though never officially a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, this colleague of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris was, by inclination and practice, sympathetic to the realist ambitions of the movement. Born in Calais, Madox Brown studied in Belgium and was influenced by the German Nazarene painters in Rome before his first liaison with Pre-Raphaelitism. Working with pure colours and clear contours on a dazzling white ground, and carefully composing his subjects from well-lit life, Brown achieved a sense of pageantry in this tableau. Its lower portions are especially immediate, an extensive cleaning having revealed the glorious condition of the original paintwork. Though Brown began his original composition in Rome, the final canvas was begun in London in 1847, and completed in 1851. Rosetti modelled for Chaucer, while others of the Pre-Raphaelite circle appear as supernumeraries. It was Brown's desire in this, surely one of the greatest modern British paintings in Australia, to encapsulate an historical moment: the birth of the English language in the person of Chaucer. The Tate Gallery in London possesses a study for the work, exact in detail but much reduced in scale. AGNSW Handbook, 1999.

The final and 'most indispensable' founding principle of the Pre-Raphaelites was: "to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues". Derided by the establishment (including Charles Dickens) for producing art which was ugly and backward, the work of John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti...

Though never officially a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, this colleague of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris was, by inclination and practice, sympathetic to the realist ambitions of the movement. Born in Calais, Madox Brown studied in Belgium and was influenced by the German Nazarene painters in Rome before his first liaison with Pre-Raphaelitism. Working with pure colours and clear contours on a dazzling white ground, and carefully composing his subjects from well-lit life, Brown achieved a sense of pageantry in this tableau. Its lower portions are especially immediate, an extensive cleaning having revealed the glorious condition of the original paintwork. Though Brown began his original composition in Rome, the final canvas was begun in London in 1847, and completed in 1851. Rosetti modelled for Chaucer, while others of the Pre-Raphaelite circle appear as supernumeraries. It was Brown's desire in this, surely one of the greatest modern British paintings in Australia, to encapsulate an historical moment: the birth of the English language in the person of Chaucer. The Tate Gallery in London possesses a study for the work, exact in detail but much reduced in scale. AGNSW Handbook, 1999.

TextbookStuff.com presents Christina Rossetti - Selected Poems Read by Miriam Margolyes. Christina Rossetti (1830-94) was an English poet. Sister to the great Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and niece of Byron’s physician John Polidori (author ofThe Vampyre), Christina wrote poetry from the age of seven. The publication of her most famous collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), made her a household name and secured her status alongside Elizabeth Barrett Browning as one of the most influential female voices in nineteenth-century poetry. As her family connections might suggest, Christina Rossetti’s work displays not only a strong religious sentiment but also a profound love of fairytale and folklore, laced with a dash of the macabre. ON SALE NOW.

DG Rossetti read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of the past. --------------------------------------------- Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882) I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before,— How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow’s soar Your neck turn’d so, Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before? And shall not thus time’s eddying flight Still with our lives our love restore In death’s despite, And day and night yield one delight once more? First aired: 14 February 2008 For hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index. Reading © Classic Poetry Aloud 2009

DG Rossetti read by Classic Poetry Aloud: Giving voice to the poetry of the past. www.classicpoetryaloud.com -------------------------------------------- The Choice by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882) Think thou and act; to-morrow thou shalt die. Outstretch'd in the sun's warmth upon the shore, Thou say'st: "Man's measur'd path is all gone o'er: Up all his years, steeply, with strain and sigh, Man clomb until he touch'd the truth; and I, Even I, am he whom it was destin'd for." How should this be? Art thou then so much more Than they who sow'd, that thou shouldst reap thereby? Nay, come up hither. From this wave-wash'd mound Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me; Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd. Miles and miles distant though the last line be, And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond,-- Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea. First aired: January 2008 For hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index. Reading © Classic Poetry Aloud 2009

Rossetti read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of the past. --------------------------------------------- Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882) I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before,— How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow’s soar Your neck turn’d so, Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before? And shall not thus time’s eddying flight Still with our lives our love restore In death’s despite, And day and night yield one delight once more?

Love Poetry read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of the past. --------------------------------------------- Poetry in the lead up to Valentine’s Day will include: 8th February: New love – Absence by Robert Bridges 9th February: The need for love – Revelation by Sir Edmund Gosse 10th February: Love as conquest – The Fair Singer by Andrew Marvell 11th February: Love as surrender – Surrender by Emily Dickinson 12th February: Love of friendship – My True-Love Hath my Heart by Sir Philip Sidney 13th February: Love after many years – Reunited by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 14th February: The promise of future love – Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Love’s Secret by William Blake (1757 – 1827) Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart; Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears, Ah! she did depart! Soon as she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly He took her with a sigh. Love Hate Poem by Ellen P. Allerton (1835 – 1893) Although a thousand leagues two hearts divide, That love has joined, the gulf is not so great As that twixt two, who, dwelling side by side Behold between, the black abyss of Hate. Jenny Kissed Me by James Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859) Jenny kiss'd me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have miss'd me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kiss'd me.

Rossetti read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of the past. --------------------------------------------- The Choice by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882) Think thou and act; to-morrow thou shalt die. Outstretch'd in the sun's warmth upon the shore, Thou say'st: "Man's measur'd path is all gone o'er: Up all his years, steeply, with strain and sigh, Man clomb until he touch'd the truth; and I, Even I, am he whom it was destin'd for." How should this be? Art thou then so much more Than they who sow'd, that thou shouldst reap thereby? Nay, come up hither. From this wave-wash'd mound Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me; Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd. Miles and miles distant though the last line be, And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond,- Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Sonnet, the most enduring form in the poet's armoury. For over five hundred years its fourteen lines have exercised poetic minds from Petrarch and Shakespeare, to Milton, Wordsworth and Heaney. It has inspired the duelling verse of ‘sonneteering', encapsulated the political perspectives of Cromwell and Kennedy and most of all it has provided a way to meditate upon love.Dante Gabriel Rossetti called it “the moment's monument”. What is it about the Sonnet that has inspired poets to bind themselves by its strictures again and again? With Sir Frank Kermode, author of many books including Shakespeare's Language; Phillis Levin, Poet in Residence and Professor of English at Hofstra University; Jonathan Bate, King Alfred Professor of English at the University of Liverpool.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Sonnet, the most enduring form in the poet’s armoury. For over five hundred years its fourteen lines have exercised poetic minds from Petrarch and Shakespeare, to Milton, Wordsworth and Heaney. It has inspired the duelling verse of ‘sonneteering’, encapsulated the political perspectives of Cromwell and Kennedy and most of all it has provided a way to meditate upon love.Dante Gabriel Rossetti called it “the moment’s monument”. What is it about the Sonnet that has inspired poets to bind themselves by its strictures again and again? With Sir Frank Kermode, author of many books including Shakespeare’s Language; Phillis Levin, Poet in Residence and Professor of English at Hofstra University; Jonathan Bate, King Alfred Professor of English at the University of Liverpool.