Sophie Gee

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Secret Life of Books · Secret Life of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

And two iconic... podcast-host

iconic images of the way that the mid-Victorian artists saw the Romantic period. podcast-host

One is the famous Henry Wallace painting of Chatterton. podcast-host

Now, no one's going to have heard of Chatterton, and that's because he died very young, impoverished and exposed as a fraud. podcast-host

He died by suicide by drinking arsenic at the age of 17, but he was kind of taken up podcast-host

by the Romantic poets and then into the Victorian period as this icon of what a poet should be. podcast-host

Impassioned, impoverished, addicted, ideally. podcast-host

Very sentimental and romantic. podcast-host

In a garret with torn up bits of paper on the floor, I suppose that's his own poetry. podcast-host

He's become completely disgusted by his own creative work and in despair he has died. podcast-host

That is the kind of icon of what a poet should be. podcast-host

It does. podcast-host

And then below it, we've got another painting that to me is really distinctive because it's picking up on another romantic fantasy, which is Keats's poem, The Eve of St. podcast-host

Agnes. podcast-host

What would you say, why do you think this calls, I mean, I suppose it's a Gothic poem, again. podcast-host

It's a sort of mythic poem. podcast-host

And the other thing I think that's really distinctive about the Eves and Agnes is that it's a dream poem about lovers. podcast-host

So, again, it's really sort of plugging into this idea that the Pre-Raphaelites take up of sort of reusing mythology podcast-host

myth and magic and almost fairy tale fantasy but relocating it in the real world of the London that they're living in. podcast-host

capability. podcast-host

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