Eggplant.place

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《伞的坟墓》

风穴，是城市受到的诅咒
是伞的坟墓，晴天雨天
连同它庇护下的一株野草
也被连根拔起，翻腾
我们卷进夏季的尾声

2024 年 8 月 25 日
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In October 1816.

John Keats writes his sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".

It tells of the author's astonishment while he was reading the works of the ancient Greek poet Homer as translated by the Elizabethan playwright George Chapman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_First_Looking_into_Chapman%27s_Homer

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23684

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Autograph manuscript of the poem "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" by John Keats.

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《活网仔》

在网里活一二三十年
乃至更久，
久到和网的岁月一样
漫长，你就能随时
找到时间的对峙点
像虫子斜着洞穿一粒苹果
谁也不知道那虫子从哪来
也许它也一样住在时间的网里

2024 年 9 月 7 日
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《暑假》

与童年告别后，我们第一次
重新经历人生的暑假
宇宙也跟着进入这个故事序列

一路目睹，街道上冷冷清清
三三两两的年轻人穿着浴衣
我想象她们约会从海边归来

孩童骑着自行车
在商店街转来转去
喫茶店的草莓刨冰是旧时味道

可是奇怪，我的童年并不发生在
这座隔海相望的岛屿

2024 年 8 月 15 日
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"I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood,
Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-red heath,
The red-ribb'd ledges drip with a silent horror of blood,
And Echo there, whatever is ask'd her, answers 'Death."

#OTD in 1855

Alfred Tennyson reads from his new book Maud and other poems at a social gathering in the home of Robert & Elizabeth Browning in London. Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a sketch of him doing so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud,_and_Other_Poems

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56913

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This is DGR's second reproduction of his original sketch, as reprinted in Scribner's Magazine, vol. 21, no. 1 (January, 1897), p.120. The sketch is accompanied by a note from Cosmo Monkhouse describing the history of the original and this reproduction, on pages 125-6 of the same issue.

https://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/s526.r-2.rap.html

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《海浪》

在乐器击打，大雨声中
昏沉。而短暂地睡去
梦见一些枯萎的词句
其中半句是没关系——
死亡会将它变得对称
然后在鼓声中醒来
脑袋里的那一只，
倏然停下。
现实的消波块
将我们从浪涌中抱回

2024 年 8 月 20 日
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《苹果》

在早晨，我吃下一些硬块
像吃掉石头偶尔柔软的心
藏在果皮下面，脆的
和牙齿对抗
它就成为了我的
运气好的话
最终会流进细胞
或者我像是冰河时期
的人类，突然暴死。
两三千年后的春天
一只装满种子的陶罐
被发掘出来。我的胃。

2024 年 9 月 8 日
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"He's not quite blue yet, but that will come, you shall see!"

#OTD in 1908.

Maurice Maeterlinck's L'Oiseau bleu is premièred, at Konstantin Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre.

The French composer Albert Wolff wrote an opera (first performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1919) based on Maeterlinck's original play, and Maeterlinck's inamorata Georgette Leblanc produced a novelization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Bird_(play)

The Blue Bird at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/8606

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Alisa Coonen (Mytyl; left) & Sofya Khalyutina (Tyltyl; right) in The Blue Bird of Moscow Art Theatre (1908).

Karl Fischer (Фишер, Карл Андреевич) - http://www.gazeta.lv/story/11970.html

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For a limited time, my first volume of poetry, Disremembering is available for free in kindle format on Amazon! Thank you for your support 🖤
https://a.co/d/3aL0RjD

3 days left!!

#poetry #poems #smallpoems #selfpublish #books #bookstodon
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想像一根針穿過寫真一角
你就固定在了我的時間裡
凝結的空氣沿著玻璃門窗
緩慢流下
還沒墜落就蒸發了
陽光是最令人厭惡的
比情敵可惡
我嫉妒它肆無忌憚觸碰你
你也會瞇起眼睛
夾縫中的世界
我又能佔據幾毫米
幾秒幾克
再睜開眼時
如此無辜的眼神
誰又能責怪你呢
清澈的眼淚收集好了嗎
⋯⋯
love letter
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《抽选人生》

我的人生在这里落下
全部两场，再加上个月三场
一整年我在回落，回落
的漩涡里等待
一次将我救起的机会
这机会与他人均等
就如同坠落与死亡
也是极公平的

2024 年 8 月 21 日
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#OTD in 1818.

Lord Byron writes to Thomas Moore that he has completed the first canto of Don Juan, begun on July 3.

Canto II was written from December 1818 to January 1819. Cantos III and IV were written in the winter of 1819–1820 and canto V was written in October–November 1820. Cantos I and II were published on 15 July 1819, and cantos III, IV, and V were published on 8 August 1821.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Juan_(poem)

Don Juan at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21700
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18762

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This is the first edition cover of Don Juan, published in 1819.
Lord Byron - https://archive.org/stream/donjuan21byro#page/n5/mode/2up

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#OTD in 1869.

Model, poet and artist Elizabeth Siddal (d. 1862) is exhumed at Highgate Cemetery in London in order to recover the manuscript of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems buried with her.

Rossetti then published the contents in Poems (1870). These became part of Rossetti's sonnet sequence entitled The House of Life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Siddal#After_Siddal's_death

The House of Life at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3692

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti Portrait of Elizabeth Siddal 1854

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Marsh, Jan (1996). The Pre-Raphaelites: Their Lives in Letters and Diaries. London: Collins & Brown

In the portrait, Siddal is shown with her characteristic long, flowing red hair, which became a hallmark of Rossetti's paintings. Her features are soft but marked by a melancholy or introspective expression, reflecting the delicate and enigmatic quality she embodied in much of Rossetti’s work. The artist’s use of line and color accentuates her pale complexion and ethereal beauty, while her elongated neck and serene posture give her an almost otherworldly grace.

Rossetti’s portrayal of Siddal in this piece emphasizes her as an idealized figure of beauty and fragility, embodying the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of the "tragic muse." Siddal was often depicted by Rossetti in this way, reflecting both her personal struggles with illness and her symbolic role in his artistic vision.

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American poet Emily Dickinson was born #OTD in 1830.

She was renowned for her unique, introspective, and innovative style. Though she lived a reclusive life in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson's poetry has had a profound and lasting impact on literature. She wrote nearly 1,800 poems, though only a few were published during her lifetime, often without her consent and heavily edited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

Books by Emily Dickinson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/996

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Daguerreotype of Emily Dickinson taken at Mount Holyoke, December 1846 or early 1847; the only authenticated portrait of Dickinson after early childhood.

The image shows Emily Dickinson seated, gazing directly at the camera with a calm and composed expression.

She is dressed in dark, modest clothing typical of the mid-19th century, with a high neckline and long sleeves.

Her outfit appears practical rather than ornate, in keeping with her later reputation for simplicity and modesty.

Dickinson's hair is parted in the center and styled in a smooth, low bun, a common fashion of the time.

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Dickinson's handwritten manuscript of her poem "Wild Nights – Wild Nights!"

WILD nights! Wild nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile the winds
To a heart in port,—
Done with the compass,
Done with the chart.

Rowing in Eden!
Ah! the sea!
Might I but moor
To-night in thee!

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《闹钟》

昨夜躺下时
我小小的心悬挂在墙上
在清晨丁零当啷乱响
像发条拨乱无法被回正

一座小小的孤岛
毛细血管是散开的雨林
不连贯的记忆抽出
它们一点点崩溃的细节

我的眼睛像是放映机
将寂静投射到屋顶和墙上
想把白天的影像
保存得更长一点点

在我孱弱的睡眠里
一个巨大的夜晚
我的心显得更小，更小
小得难以隐瞒一个哈欠

2024 年 9 月 13 日
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"Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste."

Letter 8 - On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

~Friedrich Schiller

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#OTD in 1922.

T. S. Eliot founds The Criterion magazine, with the first appearance of his poem The Waste Land. This will be first fully published in book form by Boni & Liveright in New York in December.

Eliot's goal was to make it a literary review dedicated to the maintenance of standards and the reunification of a European intellectual community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Criterion

The Waste Land at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1321

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Title page of the first book edition (December 1922) of The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot.

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English poet and novelist Letitia Elizabeth Landon died #OTD in 1838.

Her first major breakthrough came with The Improvisatrice and thence she developed the metrical romance towards the Victorian ideal of the Victorian monologue, influencing fellow English writers such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson and Christina Rossetti.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon

Books about Letitia Elizabeth Landon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56166

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838); variation of the original painting by Daniel Maclise.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) was a renowned English poet and novelist of the early 19th century, known for her Romantic works. In the portrait by Daniel Maclise, she is depicted with a delicate and refined appearance, typical of Romantic portraiture of the time. The original shows her seated gracefully, with soft curls framing her face, gazing thoughtfully into the distance. Her attire consists of elegant 19th-century clothing, with rich textures and details.

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"La vie est la farce à mener par tous."
Une Saison en Enfer (1873)

French soldier and poet Arthur Rimbaud was born #OTD in 1854.

Poems such as Le Bateau ivre, Le Dormeur du val and Voyelles are among the most famous in French poetry. The precocity of his genius, his dazzling literary career and his short, adventurous life all contributed to forging his legend and making him one of the giants of world literature.

Books by Rimbaud at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/33825

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Arthur Rimbaud in Harar, “in a banana garden”, 1883, Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Photo staged by Arthur Rimbaud, it would be his employee, Constantin Chriseos Sotiro, who would have operated the shutter (quoted in: Hugues Fontaine, Arthur Rimbaud photographe, ed. Textuel, 2019. ISBN 9782845977822.) - African Train fr. BNF (Paris) since 1969: Print on albumen paper, 18 x 13 cm. Original color tone is orange.

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#OTD in 1917.

The 51-year-old poet W. B. Yeats marries 25-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees at Harrow Road register office in London, with Ezra Pound as best man, a couple of months after Yeats' proposal of marriage to his ex-mistress's daughter, Iseult Gonne, is rejected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats#Marriage_to_Georgie_Hyde-Lees

Books by W. B. Yeats at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1719

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Walter de la Mare, Bertha Georgie Yeats (née Hyde-Lees), William Butler Yeats, unknown woman, summer 1930; photo by Lady Ottoline Morrell.

In the image, the group is outdoors, likely in a garden or rural setting, characteristic of Lady Ottoline's gatherings at her homes. The lighting is soft, typical of an English summer, lending a relaxed and somewhat nostalgic quality to the photograph.

Walter de la Mare, the English poet and author, stands or sits calmly, perhaps slightly to one side.

Bertha Georgie Yeats (née Hyde-Lees), the wife of William Butler Yeats, appears in the photograph with a sense of quiet elegance.

William Butler Yeats, the famed Irish poet, stands or sits prominently in the image, his distinctive features easily recognizable.

The unknown woman is present alongside the others, her identity and role a mystery, adding an air of intrigue to the photograph.

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"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing."
Table Talk (1851)

English poet and essayist Leigh Hunt was born #OTD in 1784.

He was the centre of the Hampstead-based group that included William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, known as the "Hunt circle". Hunt also introduced John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson to the public.

Books by Leigh Hunt at PG:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Hunt

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Leigh Hunt, engraved by H. Meyer from a drawing by J. Hayter

Unknown author - Unknown source

Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), an English essayist and poet

In this engraving, Hunt is depicted with a sharp yet thoughtful expression. His face is oval-shaped, with fine, well-defined features. His hair is curly and dark, swept back from his forehead in a loose, natural style, characteristic of the Romantic era. His high forehead suggests intellect, while his penetrating gaze and slightly furrowed brow give an air of seriousness and reflection. His eyes are a focal point, full of life and intelligence, conveying both his wit and his contemplative nature.

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Dutch author and poet Isabelle de Charrière, known as Belle van Zuylen, was born #OTD in 1740.

She is now best known for her letters and novels, although she also wrote pamphlets, music and plays. She took a keen interest in the society and politics of her age, and her work around the time of the French Revolution is regarded as being of particular interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_de_Charri%C3%A8re

Books by Isabelle de Charrière at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Isabelle+de+Charri%C3%A8re&submit_search=Go%21

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Isabelle de Charrière by Jens Juel, (1777), Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Neuchâtel.

Jens Juel - http://www.charriere.nl/images/juel.htm [1]

Isabelle de Charrière, born Isabelle Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken, known as Belle de Zuylen (1740-1805)

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Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini was born #OTD in 1886.

She wrote for the magazine La Alborada (The Dawn). She formed part of the Generation of 1900, along with Julio Herrera y Reissig, Leopoldo Lugones and Horacio Quiroga.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delmira_Agustini

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Retrato de Delmira Agustini publicado en 1907 en el poemario "El libro blanco (frágil)" Desconocido - https://diadelasescritoras.bne.es/delmira-agustini/

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#art #history:
‘kiss me & you will see how important i am.’
i'm wishing a sketchy birthday to la plath, born #otd in 1932 - &, even though i've not a chance in high hades of achieving a scintilla of the written eloquence that she displayed, here's my scribbled ode. [cheeky wee thread follows]
#sylviaPlath #illustration #poet #literature #poetry

digital pencil & ink sketch of a young & smiling young writer, sylvia plath. her gaze meets yours & she exudes quiet confidence, her arms crossed in front of her chevron-bearing, cap sleeved collegiate jumper. an abstract broad-stroke background cut through by lines that form a trapezoid sits behind sylvia.
colours are peach, coral, auburn, red & off-white.

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"Time drops in decay
Like a candle burnt out.
And the mountains and woods
Have their day, have their day;
But, kindly old rout
Of the fire-born moods,
You pass not away."

In December 1893.

W. B. Yeats publishes The Celtic Twilight, a collection of lore and reminiscences from the West of Ireland, giving a popular name to the Irish Literary Revival.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Literary_Revival

The Celtic Twilight at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10459

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Portrait of young William Butler Yeats by his father, John Butler Yeats.

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