#Shelley Dickinson

[luciferslilith7]

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

Virginia Woolf

Selected Letters

[workingonit-currently]

This came from me asking, "What is Emily Dickinson" as I forgot the word for recluse.

[logophilist1982]

Choose a poet

[belle-keys]

Biographical movies and dramas about writers:

Tolkien (2019) - about JRR Tolkien

The Edge of Love (2008) - about Dylan Thomas

Set Fire to the Stars (2014) - about Dylan Thomas

Colette (2018) - about Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Wilde (1997) - about Oscar Wilde

The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) - about Oscar Wilde

My Salinger Year (2020) - about JD Salinger

Rebel in the Rye (2017) - about JD Salinger

Mary Shelley (2017) - about Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Gothic (1986) - about Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Shakespeare in Love (1998) - about William Shakespeare

Sylvia (2003) - about Sylvia Plath

Dickinson (2019-2021) - about Emily Dickinson

A Quiet Passion (2016) - about Emily Dickinson

Vita & Virginia (2019) - about Virginia Woolf

Becoming Jane (2008) - about Jane Austen

Miss Austen Regrets (2007) - about Jane Austen

Kafka (1991) - about Franz Kafka

Byron (2003) - about Lord Byron

Total Eclipse (1995) - about Paul Verlaine

Capote (2005) - about Truman Capote

Rowing with the Wind (1988) - about the Romantic Poets

Infamous (2006) - about Truman Capote

Quills (2000) - about Marquis de Sade

Neruda (2016) - about Pablo Neruda

Juana Inés (2016) - about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Daphne (2007) - about Daphne du Maurier

Priest of Love (1981) - about DH Lawrence

Little Ashes (2008) - about Federico Garcia Lorca

Lope (2010) - about Lope de Vega

Howl (2010) - about Allen Ginsberg

The Last Station (2009) - about Leo Tolstoy

Young Goethe in Love (2010) - about Johann Goethe

Tom & Viv (1994) - about T.S. Eliot

Céleste (1980) - about Marcel Proust

Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) - about Ernest Hemingway

Balzac: A Life of Passion (1999) - about Honore de Balzac

The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) - about Charles Dickens

Shirley (2020) - about Shirley Jackson

Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017) - about Alan Alexander Milne

Heart Beat (1980) - about Jack Kerouac

In the Heart of the Sea (2015) - about Herman Melville

Notes: Not all of the films on this non-exhaustive list are entirely “about” the lives of their respective writers to a tee. I cannot vouch for the accuracy or quality of all of these movies. I’ve only seen about 75% of these films personally. And yes, I know this list is very Westernized – I’m working on it.

[flowersandfashion]

How Many Drinks It Would Take Me to Hook Up with Classic Literature Writers

[the-hottest-band-tournament]

Round Two

Sonic Youth

Defeated opponents: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

Formed in: 1981

Genres: Noise rock, no wave, avant-punk, lo-fi

Lineup: Thurston Moore – guitar, vocals, piano, production

Kim Gordon – bass guitar, guitar, vocals, production

Lee Ranaldo – guitar, vocals, production

Steve Shelley – drums, production

Albums from the 80s:

Sonic Youth EP (1982)

Confusion is Sex (1983)

Kill Yr Idols EP (1983)

Sonic Death (1984)

Bad Moon Rising (1985)

EVOL (1986)

Sister (1987)

Master-Dik EP (1987)

The Whitey Album (1988) (as Ciccone Youth)

Daydream Nation (1988)

Propaganda: 

Iron Maiden

Defeated opponents: Europe

Formed in: 1975

Genres: Metal, Power Metal, Prog Metal

Lineup: Bruce Dickinson - vocals 

Dave Murray - guitar

Adrian Smith - guitar, vocals, keyboard 

Steve Harris - bass, vocals, keyboard

Nicko McBrain - drums 

Albums from the 80s: 

Iron Maiden (1980)

Killers (1981)

The Number of the Beast (1982)

Piece of Mind (1983)

Powerslave (1984)

Live After Death (1985)

Somewhere in Time (1986)

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)

Propaganda: What other band could make metalheads love songs based on poetry ("The Trooper" inspired by Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (based on the Coleridge poem of the same name), history ("Alexander the Great"), cult TV series ("The Prisoner" based on the show of the same name), mythology (twisted a bit with "Flight of Icarus"), and classic literature ("Phantom of the Opera" based on the Gaston Leroux novel, "Murders in the Rue Morgue" based on the Poe story, "To Tame a Land" originally meant to be titled after its inspiration: Frank Herbert's "Dune")? These guys are proud geeks and one of the most epic bands on the planet, STILL going strong all these years later.

[hallaburger]

You are cordially invited...

...to join the Sunflower Ephemera Society!

This is a little pet project I'm starting, inspired by my late cousin, who had a passion for making her family and friends smile with heartfelt notes and cards for every occasion. She instilled in me a love of ephemera and collecting notes and correspondence from loved ones, and I'm so glad to still have some of the letters she sent me. Sunflowers were her favorite (purple and yellow were her favorite colors!), hence the name of this project. We are so caught up in being online that I worry we have forgotten the joy of sending and receiving letters, postcards, photographs... and I want to rekindle that joy!

If you are interested, please check out the survey linked below and complete it. This is rolling admission, so there is no cutoff to sign up! All countries are welcome!

I also have a running wishlist here for supplies, and will gladly accept donations to keep this thing organized and running smoothly here. Donations will be used to purchase postage, support participants who need help with postage or supplies, and support occasional member exclusives like fancy cards and letters (think Bridgerton!). If we grow this thing enough, I would love to do even more with it!

Thank you so much for your interest, and please pass this around to anyone you think may enjoy it! Remember: it's not the contents of the letter that matter most, but the thought to send one in the first place. 🖋️📜🐦‍⬛

[rendingrocks]

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

Cesare Pavese, selected writings

[seyo]

IT'S FINALLY GETTING COLD YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

[quote-tournament]

I don't think I've seen any quote from Robert Frost's poems here (but I might have missed it) so here's an extract who got me through harsh days (especially the two last verses, along with the "Life" quote from Frankenstein and Dickinson's "Hope is a thing with feathers") :

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, 

But I have promises to keep, 

And miles to go before I sleep, 

And miles to go before I sleep.

And miles to go before I sleep

This extract is beautiful and has been added to the list of honourable mentions

The full poem and other mentioned quotes for anyone interested:

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound’s the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

-Robert Frost

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

-Mary Shelley, Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.

-Emily Dickinson

[luciferslilith7]

"If I didn't think, I would have been much happier."

~Sylvia Plath

[workingonit-currently]

[lauriemarch]

it's national poetry month. thank you poems for sometimes saving my life when i need it the most

[fructidors]

i've decided what i need to keep going in life is a miniseries in the exact same style as dickinson but about percy shelley. i think about this a normal amount

[gaaaaaaaayypr]

I agree with this sadly.

There are brilliant women out there but most women aren't " crazy" or "obsessive" enough like men.

Men are more obsessive on average and that's what it takes to be great.

Yes women were oppressed in the past but I think creative genius has more to do with our neurology. If anything, more great art should have broken through from our oppression. The best art comes from suffering but you are born an artist.

Women like Mary Shelley and Emily Dickinson are RARE.

Many aristocratic women had the time to write ✍️ Where are the others?

[manitat]

BABY IT'S YOU is a song written by Burt Bacharach… It was recorded by The Shirelles and The Beatles, and was a hit for both. The highest-charting version of BABY IT'S YOU was by the band Smith, who took the song to number five on the US charts in 1969…