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Theme, Thou art dusk

   Posted by: Reely   in Literature

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I had the Sandbox theme in here before, but I couldn’t get my widgets to work in it so I changed to a this nice one I found by Beccary called “Dusk” and lo! and behold, the calendar and all that showed up.

But I am too tired to do anything else, including finishing the new Samuel Taylor Coleridge timeline I am working on. Then everyone will know The Ancient Mariner is on the site, even though I don’t have a reading for it yet and right now, on the STC page I have up, it has a read it online link to Classic Bookshelf.

There’s a movie I want to get from Amazon called Pandaemonium, which stars Linus Roache as STC and explores his friendship with the Wordsworths. Here is a movie that was listed as one of the top 10 films of 2000 but wasn’t widely distrbuted in the USA because of a bad review. Samantha Morton, who played Jane Eyre in the A&E miniseries (she was a great Jane), plays Sara Coleridge. So, “I gots to see this,” even though I saw another review that claimed it was a little absurd that they go around spouting poetry. I do that myself at odd moments, courtesy of STC and other poets of great fame, of course. “Unhand me, greybeard loon.” You don’t even need a greybeard to get me to say that one.

Reely

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Karen
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The dusk theme is beautiful. I love it.

That movie sounds good, too!

April 6th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Puplet
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Pandaemonium’s a great movie! Historically all over the place but it does give you a sense of the excitement in the 1790s, and you can’t beat that… For a more subdued view of real life in the Lake Poets’ circle, I’d recommend Kathleen Jones’s A Passionate Sisterhood and, also, if you can get hold it at a local library, Dennis Low’s The Literary Protégées of the Lake Poets.

July 9th, 2007 at 4:19 am
Reely
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I have since seen Pandaemonium and I agree - it was a GREAT movie! I loved the Ancient Mariner rendition. Maybe it’s not historically accurate, but that there was strife in the Wordsworth/Coleridge friendship isn’t too much a stretch, is it? There may very well have been a slow buildup of conflicts unti the incident where their friendship was irrevocably damaged.

Thanks for the recommendations.

July 21st, 2007 at 7:10 am

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