tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222625576455946162.post470747746669523604..comments2024-03-26T23:02:26.307+01:00Comments on silvae: KunstUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222625576455946162.post-69246026160632747702010-07-10T11:33:37.358+02:002010-07-10T11:33:37.358+02:00Hallo Jay,
bei aller Kritik an Ruskin, ich meine,...Hallo Jay,<br /><br />bei aller Kritik an Ruskin, ich meine, er schrieb ein ganz wunderbares Englisch. <br /><br />Man ahnt, was den französischen Romancier an Ruskin fasziniert hat, wenn man die letzten Sätze der autobiographischen Aufzeichnungen liest, die der Brite 1889 unter dem Titel "Praeterita" veröffentlicht hat:<br /><br />"How things bind and blend themselves together! The last time I saw the Fountain of Trevi, it was from Arthur´s father´s room – John Severn´s, where we both took Joanie to see him in 1872, and the old man made a sweet drawing of his pretty daughter-in-law, now in her school-room; he himself then eager in finishing his last picture of the Marriage in Cana, which he had caused to take place under a vine trellis, and delighted himself by painting the chrystal and ruby glittering of the changing rivulet of water out of the Greek vase, glowing into vine. Fonte Branda I last saw with Charles Norton, under the same arches where Dante saw it. We drank of it together, and walked together that evening on the hills above, where the fireflies among the scented thickets shone fitfully on the still undarkened air. How they shone! Moving like fire-broken starlight through the purple leaves. How they shone! Through the sunset that faded into thunderous night as I entered Siena three days before, the white edges of the mountainous clouds still lighted from the west, and the openly golden sky calm behind the Gate of Siena´s heart with its still golden words, “Cor magis tibi Sena pandit,” and the fireflies everywhere in sky and cloud rising and falling, mixed with the lightning and more intense than the stars." (Praeterita, Joanna´s Care, 1889)Morgenländerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02318419347365471040noreply@blogger.com