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The Poet's Dream, c.1830 by Robert Walter Weir (American, 1803--1889)
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Knight’s Encounter (Robert Walter Weir, 1855)
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ROBERT WALTER WEIR
A Child's Prayer.
Oil on panel, circa 1840
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What I read in 2023!
Isn't it nice to have the whole year's worth of something in one handy list?
January
Medieval England: From Arthur to the Tudor Conquest, Jennifer Paxton ⭐️⭐️⭐️ NF
The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hannibal, Livy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ NF
John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster, Sam L Amirante, Danny Brodrick ⭐️⭐️⭐️ NF
This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone ⭐️⭐️
Trouble With Lichen, John Wyndham ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Reanimator's Heart, Kara Jorgensen 😠
The Miracle of Dunkirk, Walter Lord ⭐️⭐️⭐️ NF
Alone on the Ice, David Roberts ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ NF
The Midwich Cucoos, John Wyndham ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Hanging Tree, Ben Aaronovitch ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Polygamist's Daughter, Anna LeBaron, Leslie WIlson ⭐️⭐️⭐️ NF
Stowaway to Mars, John Wyndham ⭐️⭐️
Confession of a Serial Killer, Katherine Ramsland ⭐️⭐️⭐️ NF
Sparta's First Attic War, Paul A Rahe ⭐️⭐️ NF
FantasticLand, Mike Bockoven ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia 1942, Special Service Division Services of Supply US Army ⭐️⭐️⭐️NF
Columbus Day, Craig Alanson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Blood in the Snow, Tom Henderson ⭐️⭐️NF
The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Last Days of Stalin, Joshua Rubenstein ⭐️⭐️⭐️NF
Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky ⭐️⭐️NF
Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Web, John Wyndham ⭐️⭐️
An Unnatural Vice, KJ Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
An Unsuitable Heir, KJ Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Alexander the Great, Norman F Cantor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️NF
A Dark Night in Aurora, William H Reid ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️NF
The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting, KJ Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Snow Killings, Marney Rich Keenan ⭐️⭐️⭐️ NF
The Odyssey, Homer trans. Emily Wilson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Martian, Andy Weir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
How Great Science Fiction Works, Gary K Wolfe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️NF
Lies Sleeping, Ben Aaronovitch ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
February
False Value, Ben Aaronovitch ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Amongst Our Weapons, Ben Aaronovitch ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Lancashire Witches, William Harrison Ainsworth ⭐️
Queen of Teeth, Hailey Piper ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas ⭐️⭐️
Age of Myth, Michael J Sullivan ⭐️⭐️
The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester ⭐️⭐️
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Meddling Kids, Edgar Cantero ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Monsters We Defy, Leslye Penelope ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Man and the Crow, Rebecca Crunden (ss)⭐️
A Better Fate, DN Bryn (ss) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Artemis One-Zero-Five, CHristopher Henderson DNF
House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
All Systems Red, Martha Wells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Artificial Condition, Martha Wells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Exit Strategy, Martha Wells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
New Earth, Ben Bova ⭐️⭐️
Death Wave, Ben Bova ⭐️
Mouth of Mirrors, Maxwell I Gold (ss) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
March
On the Beach, Nevil Shute ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Star Nomad, Lindsay Buroker ⭐️
Burning Roses, SL Huang ⭐️⭐️
Trick or Treat, Richie Tankersley Cusick ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Unfinished Tales, JRR Tolkien ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pushing Ice, Alastair Reynolds ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The End of the World Anthology ⭐️⭐️
The Home of the Blizzard (nf), Sir Douglas Mawson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Night Stalker (nf), Philip Carlo ⭐️⭐️⭐️
In the Court of the Nameless Queen, Natalie Ironside ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Ultimate Evil (nf), Maury Terry ⭐️
The Hillside Stranglers (nf), Darcy O'Brien ⭐️⭐️
The Element of Fire, Martha Wells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chasm City, Alastair Reynolds ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
April
The Stolen Heir, Holly Black ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Kintu, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Kidnapped, Diane Hoh ⭐️⭐️
Overlord, David Wood & Alan Baxter ⭐️⭐️
Child of God, Cormac McCarthy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Walking to Aldebaran, Adrian Tchaikovsky ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Redemption’s Blade, Adrian Tchaikovsky ⭐️⭐️⭐️
At the Mountains of Madness, HP Lovecraft ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Initiation, Diane Hoh ⭐️⭐️
The Book of Queer Saints Anthology ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Expert System’s Brother, Adrian Tchaikovsky ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pluto’s Republic, David Roochnik (nf) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Twisted Ones, T Kingfisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Evil Roots, Killer Tales of Botanical Gothic Anthology ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Shadow Over Innsmouth, HP Lovecraft ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Whisperer in Darkness, HP Lovecraft ⭐️⭐️
Alien: Convenant Origins, Alan Dean Foster ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Alien: Coveant, Alan Dean Foster ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Wendigo, Algernon Blackwood ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Alien III, William Gibson ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Alien: The Cold Forge, Alex White ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Republic, Plato ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Alien: Prototype, Tim Waggoner ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Alien: Isolation, Keith RA DeCandido ⭐️⭐️
A Thief in the Night, KJ Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Dialogues, Plato ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Alien: Into Charybdis, Alex White ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Alien: Infiltrator, Weston Ochse ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Percent, Jon Elofson (ss) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Aliens: Bug Hunt Anthology ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Growing Things & Other Stories, Paul Tremblay ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lords of Uncreation, Adrian Tchaikovsky ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
May
The Day We Ate Grandad, CM Rosens ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Alien: Out of the Shadows, Tim Lebbon ⭐️⭐️
Jaws, Peter Benchley ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Room on the Sea, Andrē Aciman ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Alien: River of Pain, Christopher Golden ⭐️⭐️
Alien: Sea of Sorrows, James A Moore ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Gentleman From Peru, Andrē Aciman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Century Rain, Alastair Reynolds ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hyperion, Dan Simmons ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dust, Elizabeth Bear ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
100 Fathoms Below, Steven L Kent & Nicholas Kaufmann ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Saturn’s Monsters, Thomas K Carpenter ⭐️
Address Unknown, Kressmann Taylor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Murder by Other Means, John Scalzi ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Ethics of Aristotle, Joseph Koterski ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Neil Gaiman at the end of the Universe, Arvind Ethan David ⭐️⭐️
Bag of Bones, Stephen King ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bewilderness, Part One: Threshold, Jonathan Maberry ⭐️
Ten Low, Stark Holborn ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Benny Rose, the Cannibal King, Hailey Piper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
My Dark Vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester ⭐️
Three Hearts and Three Lions, Poul Anderson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Almost Human(nf), Lee Berger & John Hawks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Paladin’s Grace, T Kingfisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Killing the Bismarck(nf), Iain Ballantyne ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ancient Mesopotamia(nf), Amanda H Podany ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Art of War(nf), Andrew R Wilson ⭐️⭐️
The White People, Arthur Machen ⭐️
June
Witch King, Martha Wells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Broken Sword, Poul Anderson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Early Middle Ages (nf), Philip Daileader ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The History of Ancient Egypt (nf), Bob Brier ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Banewreaker, Jacqueline Carey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Godslayer, Jacqueline Carey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chernobyl 01:23:40 (nf), Andrew Leatherbarrow ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Stress and Your Body (nf), Robert Sapolsky ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ice Ghosts (nf), Paul Watson ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Illiad, Homer, trans. Edward Earl of Derby ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Th Hunt & the Haunting, Victoria Audley ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Our Shadows Have Claws Anthology ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Writing Creative Nonfiction (nf), Tilar JJ Mazzeo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Brain Wave, Poul Anderson ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
July
Travel by Bullet, John Scalzi ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Redemption Ark, Alastair Reynolds ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Labrys(ss), Victoria Audley ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Grown Gown(ss), Derek Des Anges ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Hellbound Heart, Clive Barker ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Orca, Arthur Herzog III ⭐️
The Gallows Pole, Benjamin Myers ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Chemist, Stephanie Meyer ⭐️
Icehenge, Kim Stanley Robinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Band Sinister, KJ Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Now She Is Witch, Kirsty Logan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Slow Bullets, Alastair Reynolds ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Inside the Mind of BTK(nf), Johnny Dodd & John Douglas ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Antarctica, Kim Stanley Robinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
August
The Henchmen of Zenda, KJ Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Morning Star, Peter Atkins ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Subsidence (ss), Steve Rasnic Tem ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Man in the High Tower, Philip K Dick ⭐️⭐️⭐️
What the Dead Know (ss), Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Maze Runner, James Dashner ⭐️
Unfit to Print, KJ Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chill, Elizabeth Bear ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bryony and Roses, T Kingfisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Confessor (ss), Elizabeth Bear ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Grail, Elizabeth Bear ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Babylon (nf), Paul Kriwaczek ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Unquiet, E Saxey DNF
The Ritual of the Labyrinth (ss), Esmée de Heer ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Terminal World, ALastair Reynolds ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Essays of Flesh and Bone (ss), Victoria Audley ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Future of Work: Compulsory (ss), Martha Wells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Lady or the Tiger (ss), Frank Stockton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold ⭐️⭐️
Dreamsnake, Vonda N McIntyre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The First Fossil Hunters (nf), Adrienne Mayor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Shards of Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Red Land, Black Land (nf), Barbara Mertz ⭐️⭐️⭐️
On Planetary Palliative Care (ss), Thomas Ha ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nova, Samuel R Delany ⭐️⭐️⭐️
September
Time to Orbit: Unknown, Derin Edala ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️*
The Invincible, Stanislaw Lem ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Prefect, Alastair Reynolds ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Myrtha (ss), Victoria Audley ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Archaeology: An Introduction to the World’s Greatest Sites (nf), Eric H Cline ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Catching Teller Crow, Amberlin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Old Man’s War, John Scalzi ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Don’t Hang Up, Benjamin Stevenson ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Superluminal, Vonda N McIntyre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
World War Z, Max Brooks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Flight of the Fantail, Steph Matuku ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cyteen, CJ Cherryh ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Regenesis, CJ Cherryh ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Mindfulness for Stress Management (nf), Dr Robert Schacter ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Orange Eats Creeps, Grace Krilanovich ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Kushiel’s Dart, Jacqueline Carey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Aye, and Gomorrah (ss), Samuel R. Delany ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Carnage (nf), Mark Dapin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Unknown, Jordan L Hawk ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chocky, John Wyndham ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sword of Empire: Praetorian, Richard Foreman ❌
Revival, Stephen King ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Apollo Murders, Chris Hadfield ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Time to Orbit: Unknown is hosted online [HERE] and is currently still updating twice a week
October
Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, Hailey Piper ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ghost Bird, Lisa Fuller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Forest of Stolen Girls, June Hur ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Liar’s Dice, Jeannie Lin ⭐️
Straya, Anthony O'Connor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Toxic, Dan Kaszeta (nf) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Illuminae, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Penhallow, Georgette Heyer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Myth of the Self Made Man, Ruben Reyes Jr (ss) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Call, Christian White & Summer De Roche ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Death of the Necromancer, Martha Wells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cretins, Thomas Ha (ss) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Kill Your Brother, Jack Heath ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley (nf) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Valley of Terror, Zhou Haohui, tr. Bonnie Huie ⭐️⭐️
The Curse of the Burdens, John Wyndham ⭐️⭐️
Amazons, Adrienne Mayor (nf) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Kraken Wakes, John Wyndham ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dead Mountain, Donnie Eichar (nf) ⭐️⭐️
Family Business, Jonathan Sims ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
In the House of Aryaman A Lonely Signal Burns, Elizabeth Bear ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Blessing of Unicorns, Elizabeth Bear ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
METAtropolis Anthology ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plan for Chaos, John Wyndham ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Fatal Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, Emma Southon (nf) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Outward Urge, John Wyndham ⭐️⭐️
King Solomon’s Mines, H. Rider Haggard DNF
The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle tr. David Ross (nf) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
November
The Jewel of Seven Stars, Bram Stoker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Terror, Dan Simmons ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hannibal: The Military Genius who Almost Conquered Rome, Eve MacDonald ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ nf
Luna, Ian McDonald ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hoka! Hoka! Hoka!, Poul Anderson & Gordon R Dickson ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dracula, Bram Stoker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cicero: The Life & Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, Anthony Everitt ⭐️⭐️⭐️nf
The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️nf
METAtropolis: Cascadia Anthology ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Haunting of Willow Creek, Sara Crocoll Smith ��️
Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne ⭐️⭐️
METAtropolis: Green Space Anthology ⭐️⭐️⭐️
December
Carrion Comfort, Dan Simmons ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Wanted, A Gentleman, KJ Charles ⭐️⭐️
Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Henry VIII: King & Court, Alison Weir ⭐️⭐️⭐️ NF
Alexander the Great & the Macedonian Empire, Kenneth W Harl⭐️⭐️⭐️ NF
The Isles of the Gods, Amie Kaufman ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Sandman, Neil Gaiman & Dirk Maggs DNF
Phosphorescence, Julia Baird ⭐️⭐️⭐️NF
And so the grand total for 2023 is....
267!
Of course, there's a couple of DNFs in there which inflate this number somewhat, but I am absolutely not going to pick through and count them out. Plus, a DNF only gets included on the list if I've gotten through a significant portion of the book. If it's a page one no-no, it's not even worth mentioning.
I made the decision at the start of this year, to try out more books I'd never heard of before. I really like trawling through the library app, or through audible's free archives and finding stuff that I'd probably never normally have discovered. Also, revisiting books that I read a long time ago and seeing if they resemble my memories of them.
Overall, I think this was a very satisfying year of reading, and I hope that I enjoy 2024's reads just as much!
nf= non fiction
ss= short story
Stars awarded at my whim.
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St. Nicholas, ca. 1837
Robert Walter Weir (1803-1889)
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22nd August
Who Would True Valour See by John Bunyan
On this day in 1642, the English Civil War broke out between the forces of the English Parliament and those of King Charles I. John Bunyan, whose verse has become an interdenominational hymn, was a fervent Puritan and fought on the side of Parliament for three years. His side was ultimately victorious. This poem appears in Bunyan’s famous work The Pilgrim’s Progress.
The Embarkation of the Pilgrims by Robert Walter Weir
Who Would True Valour See
Who would true valour see
Let him come hither;
One here will Constant be,
Come Wind, come Weather.
There’s no Discouragement,
Shall make him once Relent,
His first avow’d Intent,
To be a Pilgrim.
Who so beset him round,
With dismal Stories,
But do themselves Confound;
His Strength the more is.
No Lyon can him fright,
He’l with a Gyant Fight,
But he will have a right,
To be a Pilgrim.
Hobgoblin, nor foul Fiend,
Can daunt his Spirit:
He knows, he at the end,
Shall Life Inherit.
Then Fancies fly away,
He’ll fear not what men say,
He’ll labour Night and Day,
To be a Pilgrim.
For all their ultimate constitutional significance, the British civil wars were above all religious wars. Figures like Bunyan saw themselves as prophets, pilgrims and martyrs, prepared to die for their faith against what they viewed as Popish Anglicanism and ungodly Royal absolutism.
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Picknick am Hudson, 1881
von Robert Walter Weir
Öl auf Leinwand, 1881
Private Collection
#Robert Walter Weir#landschaft#landschaftsmalerei#kunst#gemälde#meisterwerk#kunstdruck#museum#galerie#kunstwerk#alte meister
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Taking the Veil, Robert Walter Weir, 1863
Oil on canvas
49 ½ x 39 ¾ in. (125.73 x 100.97 cm)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
#art#painting#robert walter weir#1860s#oil#yale university art gallery#american#religious#roman catholic
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Robert Walter Weir — The Poet's Dream (watercolor and pen and ink over graphite pencil with white heightening, c.1830)
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robert walter weir, napoleon sarony
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El sueño del poeta (Robert Walter Weir, 1830)
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“National histories are interesting until the country ‘modernizes.’ After that statistics are enough.”
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila
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The List of Indispensable Science Fiction Literature for the Compleat Lady.
Inspired by my former professor's list for the compleat gentleman. There is some overlap.
I should like to note that this is a list for the compleat lady, not a compleat list.
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H.G. Wells
The Ball and the Cross, by G.K. Chesterton
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick
Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank
A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
Return from the Stars, by Stanislaw Lem
The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L'Engle
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Children of Men, by P.D. James
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury
A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Out of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis
Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis
That Hideous Strength, by C.S. Lewis
Eilfelheim, by Michael Flynn
The Green Hills of Earth, by Robert A. Heinlein
Orphans of the Sky, by Robert A. Heinlein
Shadow & Claw, by Gene Wolf
Sword & Citadel, by Gene Wolf
The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
The Dead Past, by Isaac Asimov
The Naked Sun, by Isaac Asimov
The Martian, by Andy Weir
Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future, by Mike Resnick
Whatdunits, edited by Mike Resnick
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
1984, by George Orwell
Unearthly Neighbors, by Chad Oliver
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, by Walker Percy
The Thanatos Syndrome, by Walker Percy
The Weapon Shops of Isher, by A.E. van Vogt
Declare, by Tim Powers
Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
The Taking, by Dean Koontz
Elantris, by Brandon Sanderson
Defending Elysium, by Brandon Sanderson
The Practice Effect, by David Brin
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
Dune, by Frank Herbert
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On December 7th 1784 Allan Cunningham, the Poet was born.
Cunningham’s father was a neighbour of Robert Burns and as a boy Cunningham attended his funeral, he was born and raised in Dumfiesshire. At a young age Cunningham was apprenticed to a stonemason but spent his free time reading, and writing imitations of old Scottish ballads. In 1807 he contributed to Roche’s Literary Recreations a periodical Monthly responsible for publishing Lord Byrons works.
In 1809 or therabouts he sent some Scottish Ballads he claimed to have collected to be used in Cromek’s “Remains of Nithdale and Galloway Song. Actually they were his own creations.” He came to know the author James Hogg and through him met Sir Walter Scott who suspected that the ballads in Cromek’s were in fact his own. Scott and Hogg would have been the leading authorities on folklore and ballads of Scotland at that time.
In 1813 he published, “Songs, Chiefly in the rural dialect of Scotland.” Thereafter, Cunningham, was persuaded by Cromek to move to London where be became a parliamentary reporter for "The London Magazine” and met the sculptor Sir Francis Chantry, later becoming his assistant and secretary. A position he held from 1814 until Chantry’s death in 1841. During this time, Cunningham continued to pursue literary interests when time permitted, writing three novels, a series of stories (which he contributed to Blackwood’s Magazine,) biographies, as well as many songs.
He married a servant of the house in which he was lodging and had six children, several of whom also became writers. Cunningham wrote many stories and poetic dramas but apart from hi Complete works of Burns it for hie poems and ballads he s best known and remembered.
The Waes o’ Scotland
When I left thee, bonnie Scotland,
Thou wert fair to see,
Fresh as a bonnie bride i’ the morn
When she maun wedded be!
When I came back to thee, Scotland,
Upon a May-morn fair,
A bonnie lass sat at our town-en’,
Kaming her yellow hair.
“O hey! O hey!” sung the bonnie lass,
“O hey! an’ wae ’s me!
There ’s joy to the Whigs, an’ land to the Whigs,
An’ nought but wae to me!
"O hey! O hey!” sung the bonnie lass,
“O hey! an’ wae ’s me!
There ’s siccan sorrow in Scotland,
As een did never see.
"O hey! O hey for my father auld!
O hey! for my mither dear!
An’ my heart will burst for the bonnie lad
Wha left me lanesome here!”
I had na gane in my ain Scotland
Mae miles than twa or three,
When I saw the head o’ my ain father
Coming up the gate to me.
“A traitor’s head!” and “a traitor’s head!”
Loud bawled a bluidy loon;
But I drew frae the sheath my glaive o’ weir,
An’ strak the reaver down.
I hied me hame to my father’s ha’;
Alas and alack anee!
My dear mither lay ‘mang the ashes gray,
And the death-tear in her ee.
“O wha has wrought this bluidy wark?
Had I the reaver here,
I ’d wash his sark in his ain heart’s blude,
And gie ’t to his love to wear!”
I wander a’ night 'mang the lands I own’d,
When a’ folk are asleep,
And lie owre my father and mither’s grave,
An hour or twa to weep!
O fatherless and motherless,
Without a ha’ or hame,
I maun wander through my ain Scotland,
And bide a traitor’s blame.
Allan Cunningham . 1784-1842
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Robert Walter Weir: The Virgin and Mary Magdalene
"Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness." Pope Benedict XVI.
#quotes#Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning#holiness#God#Jesus#Christ#Jesus Christ#Father#Son#Holy Spirit#Holy Trinity#christian religion#faith#hope#love#stress reliever
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Dear Friends,
So much has happened in our world, our city, and our beloved Museum over the past year. While 2020 brought tremendous challenges, it was the events of January 6—when we witnessed our nation’s seat of democracy desecrated by a violent mob committed to upholding the lie of white supremacy—that underscored the enormous work ahead.
Many searing images of rioters streaming through the historic halls of the Capitol building were captured against the backdrop of large-scale American history paintings depicting scenes of our nation’s founding, some telling glorified stories of our often-violent past. One painting seen in the background was Robert Walter Weir’s Embarkation of the Pilgrims, which portrays pilgrims setting sail from Europe for North America. (A smaller version of this painting is in the Museum’s collection.) In the upper-left corner is a rainbow, a symbol of beauty and hope—the hope for a new life of freedom and opportunity. While Weir’s painting tells the story of the victors and not the oppressed, the official albeit false story, we hold strongly to that idea of hope. It is resoundingly clear that we must reckon with the great divisions that exist in our country, and we must work hard for change and justice. To move forward with hope in this new year, we look for inspiration to our mission to contribute to a more connected and empathetic world.
In 2020, we learned much that will help us on our path forward. We learned what it means to come together as a team to support one another. We learned new ways to fulfill our mission by being of service to our neighbors and community. And we learned how to reach out virtually to youth and our public schools to ignite the imagination and spirit. We were again reminded of the importance of art to bring people of diverse backgrounds together for shared learning and conversation, as well as how art can be an essential tool for rewriting dominant narratives. That's why I'm excited for this year’s exhibitions, including Lorraine O'Grady's long overdue retrospective, our vibrant KAWS survey, and particularly our collection offerings, such as the first phase of a reinstallation of our American art galleries that turns traditional historical narratives on their head.
Inspired that the Museum’s plaza served as the setting for important marches and rallies that called for greater accountability to social justice, and knowing that we desperately need more shared civic spaces in which to respectfully gather, create, share, and celebrate, we will continue to use our open spaces in the coming year. We are particularly pleased that Nick Cave’s TRUTH BE TOLD public art installation is coming to the Brooklyn Museum this spring. It’s a powerful message at any time, but especially in these times.
As we think about what 2021 holds, I’m encouraged by the knowledge that our Museum will speak truths and work for change. And I’m grateful you are there to participate in our journey.
As ever,
Anne Pasternak,
Shelby White and Leon Levy Director
Brooklyn Museum
Robert Walter Weir (American, 1803–1889). Embarkation of the Pilgrims (detail), 1857. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum; A. Augustus Healy Fund and Healy Purchase Fund B, 75.188. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
#brooklyn museum#museums#art#brooklyn#anne pasternak#United States#Nick Cave#rober walter weir#bkmamericanart#american art
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