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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(Wiesbaden, Germany)

Alas, vain Phantasies! the fleeting brood

Of Woe self-solaced in her dreamy mood!

— S. T. Coleridge, Monody on the Death of Chatterton

svenson777: And this place our forefathers made for man!This is the process of our love and wisdom,T

svenson777:

And this place our forefathers made for man!

This is the process of our love and wisdom,

To each poor brother who offends against us ~

Most innocent, perhaps ~ and what if guilty?

Is this the only cure? Merciful God!

Each pore and natural outlet shrivell’d up

By ignorance and parching poverty,

His energies roll back upon his heart,

And stagnate and corrupt; till changed to poison,

They break out on him, like a loathsome plague-spot;

Then we call in our pamper’d mountebanks ~

And this is their best cure! uncomforted

And friendless solitude, groaning and tears

And savage faces, at the clanking hour,

Seen through the steams and vapour of his dungeon,

By the lamp’s dismal twilight! So he lies

Circled with evil, till his very soul

Unmoulds its essence, hopelessly deformed

By sights of ever more deformity!


With other ministrations, thou, O nature!

Healest thy wandering and distempered child:

Thou pourest on him thy soft influences,

Thy sunny hues, fair forms, and breathing sweets,

Thy melodies of woods, and winds, and waters,

Till he relent, and can no more endure

To be a jarring and a dissonant thing,

Amid this general dance and minstrelsy;

But, bursting into tears, wins back his way,

His angry spirit healed and harmonized

By the benignant touch of love and beauty.


~

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

THE DUNGEON


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Here are a few historical tidbits about a man who received very little formal education, the Romantic poet William Blake.

Blake was an odd character whom all the other Romantic poets found bewildering, and whom Wordsworth and Coleridge called “crazy Blake”. Coleridge, reviewing Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, found fault with Blake’s hand-drawn illustrations, in particular with the “I don’t know whatness of the countenance, as if the mouth had been formed by the habit of placing the tongue, not contemptuously, but stupidly, between the lower gums and the lower jaw”. Coleridge also disapproved of “the mood of the mind”, i.e. the supposed sanity of the poet. Robert Hunt, a critic of the time, was highly upset that “the ebullitions of a distempered brain [were] mistaken for the sallies of genius… [in the] admirers of William Blake, an unfortunate lunatic, whose personal inoffensiveness secures him from confinement and, consequently, of whom no public notice would have been taken, if he was not forced on the notice and animadversion of the Examiner, in having been held up to public admiration by many esteemed amateurs and professors as a genius in some respect original and legitimate”.

This amateur historian personally thinks that the best line from Hunt’s review is as follows:

“The praises which these gentlemen bestowed last year on this unfortunate man’s illustrations… have, in feeding his vanity, stimulated him to publish his madness more largely.”

The fact that Blake amped up the crazy in order to get people who annoyed him to leave him alone probably did not help this impression.

Source: http://gillraysprintshop.blogspot.com/2009/02/oh-that-crazy-blake.html

Part of a series of final projects for Ringling College of Art + Design. First-year Illustration maj

Part of a series of final projects for Ringling College of Art + Design.

First-year Illustration major Saige Libertore was especially impressed with Romantic Gothicism in Arts in Context, especially that expressed in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Christabel.” This demonic tale of seduction told in verse features two female characters, the protagonist Christabel and the mysterious Geraldine. As you can see in Saige’s illustration, Geraldine is figured as the blond haired woman whose reflection shows her to be a snake. She chose an etching style and hoped to convey the drama in most gothic art. It sure seems like a snake about to strike is pretty dramatic! 


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