some LANDSCAPES

I've been looking in this 1991 anthology for any interesting landscape-related poems that Peter H. Lee didn't include in  The Colu...

We just got back from Prague, where there is a lot of interesting landscape-related art I could talk about. When I last went there photograp...

  West Lake, Hangzhou Source: Wikimedia I've just read Love & Time: The Poems of Ou-Yang Hsiu , a slim volume of J. P. Seaton trans...

  Dora Carrington, Tidmarsh Mill, c. 1918   I recently read the new Frances Spalding book The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Tw...

I have been looking back at some books I read before starting this blog and have never got round to mentioning. One of these is Simplicissim...

In these interminable lockdown days it is easy to get sick of walking the same streets over and over again. Of course there is always Google...

‘The only way one can understand landscape is through time.’ - James Benning This is a still from TEN SKIES (2004) a film by James Be...

  Hsieh T'iao 'Viewing the Three Lakes' I have previously devoted a post to Hsieh Ling-yün ...

The Song Dynasty poet Yang Wanli (1127–1206) currently has a mere three-line entry on Wikipedia and there is no anthology of his verse in...

Salomon Gessner, Bucolic Scene , 1767 My post yesterday was about a nineteenth century French-speaking Swiss writer from Geneva; thi...

Robert S. Duncanson, Vesuvius and Pompeii, 1870 Source: Wikimedia Commons I now have just over a month left of my project to tweet a ...

Illustration from L e Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1498 Source: John Rylands Library I have wri...

Claude Lanzmann died this week - obituaries can be read here , here and here .  For all the praise that Shoah received, it can still fee...

Harriet Gouldsmith, A View of Hampstead Heath Looking Towards Cannon Place , 1818 I recently came across a curious publication in which...

  Josef Kuwasseg, The Period of the Muschelkalk , c. 1850 Source: The Universalmuseum Joanneum   This remarkable vision of a prehist...

Charles Blomfield, Pink Terraces , 1886 Source: Wikimedia Commons Earlier this month news came in that the lost terraces of Lake Rot...