#britishromanticism

[a-funeral-pyre]

Have you ever thought that when Percy Shelley drowned he had Keats's poems with himself and then at his funeral Byron swam in the same waters he died in. It is just... so moving that somehow they were united even in that moment.

[nudeartpluspoetry]

"The Waning Moon," by Percy Bysshe Shelley

[jacobhleveton-blog1]

William Blake, Newton, 1795/1805. Planographic color printing with watercolor, pen and ink additions to the impression, 18.11 x 23.62 in. (46.00 x 60.00 cm.), Tate Britain

[jacobhleveton-blog1]

William Blake, Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion, Plate 23, c. 1804-1820. Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink, watercolor, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper, 13.50 x 10.38 in. (34.30 x 26.40 cm.), Department of Prints and Drawings, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection