All posts tagged sailing

Speaking of the sea…

I’ve got one more maritime themed entry to share. All winter long we’ve been busy around building not one, not two, but three fantastic little sailing boats designed by the phenomenally talented Eric Blake with a big knot of friends, in anticipation of summer. Late nights. Loud music. So much fun. Someone pointed out recently [...]

Shelley at Sea

I love a certain kind of macabre /fetishistic museum show, like “Shelley’s Ghost,” currently on at the New York Public Library. In conjunction with the Oxford University, curators have gathered together ephemera and relics from the poet’s life—his coral and gold baby-rattle, a copy of his first poem, about a cat, as well as many [...]

It’s been too long! I just wanted to drop a line here on an article about Keats and Shelley meeting at Lake Geneva in the New York Times (See it here), as described in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite’s entry on Tempests. The two loved sailing, and even went in on a small boat together. Unfortunately, [...]