Some Monday Readings

The New Push for Censorship Under the Guise of Combating Hate – Paul Thacker at Tablet Magazine. 

A Blockbuster Met Exhibition Takes Visitors Back to Siena to Trace the Origins of European Painting – Christian Kleinbub at Art in America.

 

“Poor Eddy”: A New Life of Edgar Allan Poe – Mark Jarman at The Hudson Review.  Law Student Faces Expulsion for ‘Aggressive Pointing’ – Olivia Reingold at The Free Press.   Appreciations: Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen at The Lamp Magazine.   The other side of TS Eliot – Jeremy Noel-Tod at Prospect Magazine.   Do the Hard Work of Publishing – Terry Whalin at The Writing Life.   Murders for November – Jeremy Black at The Critic Magazine.   James Mackinnon, Artist – Spitalfields Life.

 

A New Mozart Work is Discovered – Stephen Klugewicz at The Imaginative Conservative.

Inspired to Draw “Dracula” Daily – 200 Times

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish theater critic and writer who became friends with Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905), one of Britain’s leading stage actors of the late 19^th century. A favorable review of Irving in Hamlet led to the friendship between the two men and eventually Stoker becoming business manager of Irving’s Lyceum Theatre in London’s West End.   

It was Irving who suggested that Stoker and his family visit Cruden Bay in Scotland, which Stoker would use as the setting for two novels (and eventually architectural inspiration for Dracula). Irving also suggested a visit to Whitby, on the coast of northeastern England, the port from which Captain James Cook set forth on his worldwide voyage and the site of St. Mary’s Church and the ruins of Whitby Abbey. The church and abbey, despoiled by Henry VIII during the dissolution of the monasteries, become one the significant settings in Dracula. 

To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.

Some Tuesday Readings

 

Revelation Must be Terrible – poem by David Whyte.

 

City of Ashes, City of Ghosts – poem by Paul Wittenberger.

 

Nothing – poem and artwork by Sonja Benskin Mesher.

 

The Darkling Thrush – poem by Thomas Hardy via Malcolm Guite.

 

Sound Over All Waters – poem by John Greenleaf Whittier at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin)

 

Reading Resolution for the New Year? – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.