John William Waterhouse: Bringing Poetry Alive, Keats, Tennyson, Shakespeare #arthistory #poetry

La Belle Dame Sans Merci
The Lady of Shalott
Pyramus and Thisbe
To the VIrgins to Make Much of Time
Isobella and the Pot of Basil
The Tempest

The Interaction of image and text is often vital and mutually enriching with literature and the visual arts spilling together in astonishing and delightful ways. Waterhouse was subtle and inspired in how he painted the poems he loved casting a lasting glow on many of them by the sheer beauty and interpretive brilliance of his work.

For outstanding videos about 19th century artists see @Edward&Ezra


I am permanently fascinated by the interaction of literature and the visual arts. Many of my videos explore that subject.

For a fascinating contemporary instance of a poet and visual artist who creates outstanding and often quite moving work in the intersection of the two worlds of image and text see the striking work at: @lostforwordspoetry