Tag Archives: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“For I am of the seed of the WELCH WOMAN and speak the truth from my heart.” — Christopher Smart

Posted on April 11, 2025 by sheila

“For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.” — Christopher Smart, from “Jubilate Agno” Christopher Smart, born on this day in 1722, spent over 10 years of his life locked … Continue reading →

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“For never has such soothing voice / Been to your shadowy world convey’d…” — Matthew Arnold on William Wordsworth

Posted on April 7, 2025 by sheila

“I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity; the emotion is contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Emily Brontë: “a solitude-loving raven, no gentle dove”

Posted on July 30, 2024 by sheila

“My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; — out of a sullen hollow in a livid hill-side, her mind could make an Eden. She found in the … Continue reading →

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The Books: Lewis Carroll: A Biography, by Morton N. Cohen

Posted on August 26, 2011 by sheila

Daily Book Excerpt: Biography Next biography on this shelf is Lewis Carroll: A Biography, by Morton N. Cohen “He has passed an excellent examination just now in mathematics, exhibiting at times an illustration of that love of precise argument, which … Continue reading →

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