#English Romanticism

[lionofchaeronea]

The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, William Blake, ca. 1799-1800

#art #art history #William Blake #religious art #Biblical art #Christian art #Christianity #parables #parables of jesus #Romanticism #Romantic art #English Romanticism #British art #English art #18th century art #drawing #watercolor #pen and ink #Metropolitan Museum of Art

[burningvelvet]

being a romantic era poet: a quick how-to guide

walk around in nature contemplating Things. start hiking, swimming, sailing, rowing, shooting, riding, etc. for inspiration

be obsessed with the french revolution and related enlightenment-era figures like rousseau, voltaire, mary wollstonecraft, and madame de staël. be more disappointed by napoleon bonaparte than you are by your own father. 

speaking of fathers, your parents and most of your other relatives are all either dying or dead or emotionally abusive. if you have any siblings (full, half, step, or adopted) who DIDN'T die tragically already, then you may choose to be close to them. you also may end up being much TOO close to them. various circumstances may also ban you from seeing them. 

be at least slightly touched by madness and/or some other severe illness(es) including but not limited to: consumption, horrors, syphilis, deformities, lameness, terrors, piles, boils, pox, allergies, coughing, sleep abnormalities, gonorrhea, etc. — for which you must take frequent bed rest and copious amounts of Laudanum (opium derivation)

consider foregoing meat and adopting a vegetable diet instead to purify the spirits. you may also abstain from alcohol for the same reasons. alternatively, you may attempt the veggie diet, end up rejecting it, and becoming a rampant alcoholic instead. in romanticism there is no healthy medium between abstinence and excess.

reject, or at least heavily criticize, christianity. refuse to get married in a church and consider becoming a fervent champion of atheism. alternatively, you may embrace catholicism, but only on an aesthetic basis. eastern religions and minority religions are also acceptable, only because they piss off the christians. 

if you’re not a self-hating member of the aristocracy and instead have to work for a living, do something that allows you to benefit society, be creative, and/or contemplate life. viable options include, but are not limited to: apothecarist, doctor, teacher, preacher, lawyer, farmer, printmaker, publisher, editor. there is also the possibility of earning a few coins from your art. if you were cursed to be born a She, no worries. we believe in equality. you may choose from these occupations: wife, nanny, housekeeper, spinster, amanuensis (copy writer for a man), lady’s companion, divorced wife, singer/actress/escort, widow, regular escort, tutor, or housewife. 

speaking of sexist institutions, try rejecting marriage entirely. Declare your eternal devotion to your lover by having sex with them on your mother’s grave instead.

if you do get married — elope, and only let it be for necessary financial reasons, or to try and save a teenage girl from her controlling family, or out of true love with someone you view as your intellectual equal, or because your life is so racked with scandals and debt that you can only clear your name by matrimony to a wealthy religious woman as your last resort before fleeing the country.

After marriage, quickly assert your belief in the powers of free love and bisexuality by taking extramarital lovers and suggesting your spouse follow suit. If they cannot keep up with your intellectual escapades then consider leaving them. Later on, propose a platonic friendship with them following the separation, or beg them for reconciliation.

If your marriage is happy, try moving in with another bohemian couple to shake things up. Alternatively, you may die before the wedding for dramatic effect.

If you beget children (whether in or out of marriage, makes no matter), do society a favor by choosing to raise them with your beliefs. Consider adopting orphan children, or even non-orphan children. If their parents are poor enough they probably won’t mind. Try kidnapp— I mean adopting — children off the side of the road if you can. 

DIE but do it creatively. ideally young. ideas: prophecy your own death, lead an army into war and then die right before your first battle and on your deathbed curse everyone and demand to see a witch, write a will leaving money to your mistresses or some random young man you have an unrequited romantic obsession with, carry a copy of your dead friend's poetry and read it right before you drown so that your washed up corpse can only be identified by his book in your pocket, die while staring at your lover's shriveled up heart that you keep wrapped up in a copy of his own poetry and then be buried with it, die of the poet's illness (consumption) while your artist friend draws you and then be buried with your lover's writing, get mysteriously poisoned (by yourself) after a series of scandals and accidents and then have your family announce that you were killed by god, die from romanticizing poverty or receiving bad reviews from literary critics, die from walking or horseback riding in the cold and the rain while poeticizing, etc.

#romanticism #romantics #romantic poetry #english romanticism #literature #english literature #lord byron #percy shelley #history #dark academia #aesthetic #poetry #lit #english #mary shelley #john polidori #william wordsworth #john keats #thomas chatterton #samuel taylor coleridge #william blake #the romantics #geneva squad #funny #meme #lit memes #my writing

[empirearchives]

“I find fault, and quarrel with Napoleon, as a lover does with the trifling faults of his mistress, from excessive liking, which tempts me to desire that he had been all faultless; and, like the lover, I return with renewed fondness after each quarrel.”

— Lord Byron

Source: Byron, Napoleon, J. C. Hobhouse, and the Hundred Days, By Peter Cochran (x)

#Byron was so real for this #you know I really regret not submitting Bryon to the Napoleonic sexyman tournament #lord Byron #Byron #napoleonic era #napoleonic #napoleon bonaparte #napoleon #quote #Peter Cochran #romanticism #english romanticism

[goetiae]

Satan as the Fallen Angel

Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) in red, white, and black chalk, this creation of phenomenal artistic mastery is a part of a larger group of art pieces. The full collection consists of six different paintings depicting scenes and characters from Milton's Paradise Lost. One is currently at the Royal Academy of Arts, one at Louvre, one in Private Collection, and two are lost.

Satan in this depiction stands in his full humanised glory - imagery typical of the late 18th century Romanticism when the fallen angel lost his beastly, animalistic appearance in art. His features here remind one more of David or Apollo Belvedere in his majestic, heavenly beauty caught right before the fall.

#༺⛧༻ 𝕮𝔞𝔫𝔢𝔰 𝖁𝔢𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔠𝔦 ༺⛧༻ #༺⚚༻ 𝕲𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔞 ༺⚚༻ #art #english art #english painter #english romanticism #romanticism #Sir Thomas Lawrence #18th century #satan #lucifer #paradise lost

[abracazabka]

going thru old text books and LMAO

can you guess who my favorite poet was

#the romantics #english romanticism #british romanticism #george gordon byron #lord byron #poets #poetry #literature #english literature #british literature #college #english major #literature major

[pagansphinx]

Joseph M. W. Turner (British\English, 1775-1851) • Rain, Steam and Speed - the Great Western Railway • 1844

#art #painting #fine art #art history #jmw turner #english artist #landscape painter #oil painting #landscape #trains in art #english romanticism #romantic landscape #19th century british art #pagan sphinx art blog #art blogs on tumblr #art appreciation #art lovers

[fangledeities]

Bettie Page

Christianae ad Leones (Christians to the Lions), (detail), 1888. Herbert Gustave Schmalz (a.k.a. Herbert Carmichael), (English, 1856-1935).

#fangledieties #english romanticism #bettie page #goddess #mash up #pinup #vintage cheesecake #pin up model

[janeaustenluvr13]

Taylor Swift WAS right!!!! I DO want auroras and sad prose!!! I DO want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet!!! those Windermere peaks DO look like a perfect place to cry!!! I DO want to set off with my muse to where all the poets went to die!!! fuck these hunters with cell phones (I'm one)

#williamwordsworth #the lakes #taylor swift #windermere peaks #folklore #the lake poets #english romanticism #romanticism #england #english poetry #poetry

[howamidrivinginlimbo]

The graves of John Keats, his friend Joseph Severn and Percy Bysshe Shelley, in the Non-Catholic Cemetery (in Testaccio, Rome, Italy)

Keats went to Italy (with Severn) for his health in 1820, but died a year later of tuberculosis at the age of 25. Shelley drowned in the Gulf of La Spezia in 1822, which was nicknamed the Gulf of Poets thereafter.

#john keats #romantic poetry #percy bysshe shelley #english romanticism #joseph severn #keats #famous poets #romanticism #cemetery #testaccio #rome #italy #rome italy #italia #roma #history #art history #culture #travel #travel photography #graveyard #gravestone #headstone #photography #traveling #dark academia #classic academia #photographers on tumblr #art #poetry

[diagnosed-anxiety-disorder]

Why kill two birds with one stone when you can kill two albatrosses with the same arrow haha ahahaaa ahaa my sense of humor is diminishing

#samuel taylor coleridge #rime of the ancient mariner #romanticism #english romanticism #romantic poetry #funny hyahya

[kecobe]

Don Juan George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron (British; 1788–1824) Autograph manuscript, unsigned First draft of Cantos I–V  (Venice and Ravenna, July 3, 1818–November 30, 1819 and October 16–November 27, 1820 The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

#Lord Byron #Byron #Don Juan #Morgan Library #literary manuscripts #manuscripts #autograph manuscripts #George Gordon Byron #George Gordon Lord Byron #Baron Byron #English poetry #English poets #epics #epic poems #cantos #poets #poetry #English Romanticism #English Romantic poets #Romantic poets #satires #literature #English literature #19th century #19th-century English literature #19th-century English poets #19th-century English poetry

[lionofchaeronea]

The Weald of Kent, Samuel Palmer, 1833-34

#art #art history #Samuel Palmer #landscape #landscape painting #landscape art #rural landscape #England #United Kingdom #Romanticism #Romantic art #English Romanticism #British art #English art #19th century art #watercolor #Yale Center for British Art

[burningvelvet]

oval still life portraits of percy shelley, mary shelley, and lord byron <3

#percy shelley #mary shelley #lord byron #romanticism #english romanticism #the romantics #geneva squad #poets #poetry #writers #writing #english literature #literature #history #1800s #portraits

[empirearchives]

Lord Byron was so fiercely loyal to Napoleon throughout his whole life, that the few times he ever criticized or reproached him is described by Dr. Adil M. Jamil as being something like “a quarrel between two devoted lovers.”

Napoleon was Lord Byron’s life-long idol and muse. “He saw himself in Napoleon, and Napoleon in him.”

#article: #Lord Byron and Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte between the Ode and Waterloo #by Dr. Adil M. Jamil #2019 #Napoleon #lord Byron #napoleon bonaparte #napoleonic #napoleonic era #first french empire #french empire #19th century #history #romantic era #english romanticism #romanticism #france #England #English lit #English literature #literature #Byron #frev #french revolution #poetry

[byronicist]

"And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, / But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride; / And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, / And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.

And there lay the rider distorted and pale, / With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail: / And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, / The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown."

George Gordon Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib (1815)

#quotes #literature #lit #poetry #spilled ink #british literature #british poetry #queer poets #biblical poetry #war poetry #1800s poetry #1800s literature #english romanticism #british romanticism #george gordon byron #george gordon #lord byron

[darkacadwmia]

#country cottage #cottagecore #light academia #light academism #light acadamia aesthetic #academia #classic academia #booklr #book aesthetic #books and libraries #books #greece #greek mythology #Greek poetry #prais #paris #parisian chic #english lit studyblr #english romanticism