Good morning! I've been too busy to post much the past few days, what with the aggressive laziness of vacation and preparations for FaerieCon. However, today I have a few empty hours before the festivities begin downstairs, so I thought it was a good time to get in some art!spam in keeping with this weekend's theme ( Read more... )

Here's something adorable to start the morning :) A word on the subject:

Christopher Anstey was an 18th century English writer and poet who spent much of his later life living in Bath. His writing appears to have been largely in the comic and satirical line. There are several examples of his poetry here. I include an Ode to the ( Read more... )

This is an excerpt from an entry I posted in my Blogger account a couple of months ago. I plan to periodically migrate some of the better bits from over there to LJ. Of course the sensible thing would have been to post them here in the first place, but at the time I thought I needed a change, so there we are ( Read more... )

One more, since I am in that blue velvet sort of mood. I was fortunate enough to see this painting in person at the Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848-1900 exhibition presented early this year at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (I made the three-hour bus ride from Philadelphia several times to visit this exhibit!). The ( Read more... )

I can't believe I have never posted this painting, which I absolutely adore, but according to my (admittedly not comprehensive) tags, this is so. Once I discovered that this was the case I had to rectify the situation immediately ( Read more... )

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I lied, I'm not too tired to post this--after watching it four or five times I fear I must inflict it upon you all :D You know, I have a sneaking suspicion that I love Mr. Oliver a teensy bit better than Mr. Colbert...he does literary humour and has a British accent ♥♥♥

Oh, in case you are curious to read the full text of the poem in question ( ( Read more... )

"The sinuous muscle of her monster tail ( Read more... )

Let me not to the marriage of true minds ( Read more... )

I've just been wallowing in the poetry today. After last night I felt compelled to delve into The Faerie Queene. I began on the way to and from work this morning (they smegged up my schedule yet again, so I decided to just come home), and managed to get through all of Canto I. I always laugh whenever I encounter this passage concerning Morpheus ( Read more... )