December 2009
41 posts
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googly thin models really don’t make that much difference.
“On the same subject Mr. Swinburne went into a hysteria of admiration:...”
– 19th century wet blanket.
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“Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the...”
– D.H. Lawrence, “Morality and the Novel” 1925
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PRB
Starting to update blog while paper writing. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were like their name and this picture… too much, but somehow appealing to our shared, fantastic sense of the mythological. Here’s Swinburne’s poem that is quoted by Thomas Hardy in Jude the Obscure. He talks about how much he loves death… and the sperm origins of Venus.
HYMN TO PROSERPINE 1 (After the Proclamation in Rome...