Sophie Gee
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10,523 appearances
38 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4d ago
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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the situation.
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aren't we?
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Yes, and now we're well into romanticism.
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And two iconic...
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iconic images of the way that the mid-Victorian artists saw the Romantic period.
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One is the famous Henry Wallace painting of Chatterton.
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Now, no one's going to have heard of Chatterton, and that's because he died very young, impoverished and exposed as a fraud.
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He died by suicide by drinking arsenic at the age of 17, but he was kind of taken up
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by the Romantic poets and then into the Victorian period as this icon of what a poet should be.
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Impassioned, impoverished, addicted, ideally.
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Very sentimental and romantic.
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In a garret with torn up bits of paper on the floor, I suppose that's his own poetry.
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He's become completely disgusted by his own creative work and in despair he has died.
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That is the kind of icon of what a poet should be.
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It does.
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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.
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Agnes.
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What would you say, why do you think this calls, I mean, I suppose it's a Gothic poem, again.
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It's a sort of mythic poem.
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And the other thing I think that's really distinctive about the Eves and Agnes is that it's a dream poem about lovers.
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