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You can draw and yet you do not love the ugly: what are you doing in this age?

Posted on January 15, 2017 by mafalda

RLS accepted the dedication of Low’s illustrated edition of Keats’s Lamia, and sent him in return the newly published Jekyll and Hyde. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this … Continue reading →

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For ladies’ love I once was fit, / But now am rather out of it

Posted on May 7, 2015 by mafalda

RLS’s uncle, Dr. George Balfour, had recommended him to use a specially contrived and hideous respirator for the inhalation of pine-oil. The ‘pirate doctor’ in the poem is Henley’s doctor, Zebulon Mennell (b. 1820). [As usual, dots between square brackets … Continue reading →

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You know I was a story-teller ingrain; did not that reassure you?

Posted on December 26, 2014 by mafalda

  The volume of studies was eventually called Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882), and the one of the essays Virginibus Puerisque (1881). The essays here mentioned on Benjamin Franklin and William Penn were projects long cherished but in … Continue reading →

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