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The Romantics, Greece, Myth, Transcendence, Beauty and Love @ Keats-Shelley House


Check-out the video stream, if you were unable to attend the lecture and reading in Rome @ the Keats-Shelley House entitled: The Romantics and Greece: Myth, Transcendence, Love and Beauty ...

As a Southerner and New Victorian with themes of Romanticism and Hellenism close to my heart, the lecture and reading pairs a series of poems, old to new from Keats, Shelley and Byron from Ode to Sonnet and Portico to Triptych, the latter two poetic forms which I have designed.

The poetry re-weaves, re-narrates and progresses mythology to philosophy and the classics through “new eyes”.

TIME STAMPS

I. Music in the Universe According to Sophocles

II. According to Proclus

Byron: Childe Harold

CANTO I - IV (excerpts)

G.F. Zaimis Pairing: Ourania

Collection: Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology

III. Ekphrastic Poetry through the Ode and Portico forms

Keats: Ode to a Grecian Urn (excerpts)

G.F. Zaimis Pairing: The Caryatids*

Collection: Excavated, Athens to Alexandria

*1st gen. Portico form designed

IV. Aeschylus and Shelley from Prometheus Bound, Unbound to Rebound

G.F. Zaimis Pairing: Prometheus Rebound (the play written in sonnet cycles)

Collection: Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology

Keats: Ode to Psyche (excerpts)

G.F. Zaimis Pairing: Psyche's Cup

Collection: LULL Publication, 2nd Poets Agora

G.F. ZaimisPairing: Wyrd Worker

Collection: Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology

Image: Portrait of P.S. Shelley in Greece, by Severn

Oil on canvas, Collection Keats-Shelley House, Rome

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