The Romantics - Blog Posts

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aah byron, the queen of all drama queens.

no because imagine having to sit through byron scream singing in albanian

song of the day!

my bsf told me about the dbd x fnaf crossover earlier and in honor of that:

day 89- Talking In Your Sleep {The Romantics}

Pale beneath the blaze Hung the transparent foliage; and I watch'd Some broad and sunny leaf, and lov'd to see The shadow of the leaf and stem above Dappling its sunshine! And that walnut-tree Was richly ting'd, and a deep radiance lay Full on the ancient ivy, which usurps Those fronting elms

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge (This lime tree bower my prison) 

“Bysshe looked, as he always looked, wild, intellectual, unearthly; like a spirit that had just descended from the sky; like a demon risen at that moment out of the ground.”

— Thomas Hogg on Percy Bysshe Shelley (also, coincidentally, my aesthetic goals)

god I wish someone would describe me as wild, intellectual, unearthly

from Mary Shelley’s preface to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851), Frankenstein, manuscript, MS. Abinger c.56, fols. 20v – 21r, 1816 – 1817. The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.

The very pinnacle of genius

here's a proposal, a film about the Romantics starring the cast of 2010s snl.

Kristen Wiig as Mary Shelley, John Mulaney as Percy Shelley, Bill Hader as Lord Byron, Pete Davidson (in a wig) as John Keats (I'd pay to see that tbh) and Vanessa Bayer as Claire Clairmont 

bonus points for Nick Kroll as John Polidori and Seth Meyers as Wordsworth

honestly the fact that I wrote so much about Mary Shelley in my English mock that I got an 8 despite not even finishing my article just sums me up

Goethe has said, that in youth we cannot be happy unless we love. I did not love; but I was devoured by a restless wish to be something to others.

Mary Shelley, from The Last Man. (via weepforadonais)

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