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Break me off another tangerine wedge I’m not driving
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in the springtime i feel little flowers grow in my heart too
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Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women
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there is so much beauty in this world <-guy who read a poem today
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Abandoned Tori Gate found in Japanese Tunnel
Such gates are used to mark the entrance to sacred grounds or gods' territories. "The tori gate symbolizes the division between the sacred and the profane, and is considered a spiritual gateway between the physical world and the spiritual realm."
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She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
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everybody ready for the cruellest month? cruellest month tomorrow
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some Luci Shaw for the carpenter-Jesus-encounters-the-cross enjoyers
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i made a character uquiz. i 100% promise you that you will get a character you know AND like
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It’s Fine Press Friday!
Today we’re leaning into the drama with a 1910 edition of Poems from notorious bohemian and (unofficial) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) member Christina Rossetti. This vellum covered, gilt stamped, 369-page tome was printed on Unbleached Arnold paper by the Villafield Press in Glasgow and published in limited run of 350 copies in 1910 in London by Blackie & Son under the art direction of Talwin Morris. It features a praiseful yet cutting introduction from fellow poet, critic, and suffragist Alice Meynell along with a wealth of illustrations (70 plates) by Florence Harrison, an Australian illustrator of poetry and children’s books who worked extensively with Blackie & Son. Harrison’s style was inspired by the Romantic Era and the nature-worshipping, hedonistic values of the Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite movements of the time. Fittingly, she also illustrated the works of fellow PRB poets William Morris and Alfred Tennyson.
While many of the poems included are overtly devotional and express themes of purity, motifs of romantic love, limerence, melancholy, and death permeate the mood of the text as a whole. The Rossetti family, particularly Christina’s brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti (poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and co-founder of the PRB) and Elizabeth Siddal (artist, iconic art model, poet, and Dante’s longtime partner, muse, and eventual wife), are known for their exploits, excesses, creative legacy and influence on the culture of the era. Christina published her first poem at only 16, and Siddal posed for Millais's Ophelia at 19. The radical, passionate nature of the philosophies and lifestyle they embodied was as much a product of the intensity and privilege of their youth as of the Renaissance ideals and Victorian mores they rebelled against.
For a deeper dive on the Rossettis and their generation, check out this recent exhibition at the Tate Modern.
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--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern
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“The Sacrifice and the Resurrection” or “Ode to Spring”, from Andrea Zanatelli’s embroidery series
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here y'all go, just a simple fun one this time around! take this quiz and tell me what kind of cat you are! (=^･ω･^=)
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