Day: April 2, 2019

waitinginvaiiin: “We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.” — Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via books-n-quotes)

[EMLS 3.2 (September, 1997): 2.1-61] The Poetic Nocturne: From Ancient Motif to Renaissance Genre

[EMLS 3.2 (September, 1997): 2.1-61] The Poetic Nocturne: From Ancient Motif to Renaissance Genre “Night-walking” for instance is a crime for the medieval commoner (a royal charter of 1347 granted Bristol the right to imprison nightwalkers, for their motivation could only be felonous), but becomes a pious and aesthetic convention for the well-to-do, urban scholar…

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