by Ann Wroe
38 Goethe: Faust, Part 1, ‘Walpurgisnacht’; Truth and Poetry (experience of 1765). Baruch, III, 33. Milton: PL X, 450–52
39 Traherne: Centuries, 3.33. Grosseteste: Hexameron, Part 2, Ch. VII. Hopkins: Journal, 1870 (HH, pp. 131–32). Book of Enoch, 6.7; 13.2–8
40 Dante: DC, Paradiso I, 37–72. Newton: Opticks, Book 1 Part II, Prop. XI, Prob. VI
41 Newton: Letter to Henry Oldenburg, 6 Feb. 1671/2. Palmer: 1824 Sketchbook, p. 2; AHP, pp. 327, 113. Jefferies: ‘Nutty Autumn’; ‘Nature in the Louvre’. Thoreau, Journal, 27 Feb. 1841
42 Coleridge: N 925, 2026. Hopkins: Journal, 8 July 1871; ‘Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves; Hopkins: Journal, 11 May 1873; 18 May 1870; ‘The May Magnificat’
43 Coleridge: N 1603; Hopkins: ‘The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe’
44 Goethe: Theory of Colours. 155 et seq., 69, 590; Conversation with Eckermann, 1829. Palmer: AHP, p. 79; Edward Malins, Samuel Palmer’s Italian Honeymoon (OUP, 1968), p. 118
45 Newton: Opticks, Book 1 Part I, Definition II; Book 2 Part III, Prop. XII; Book 1 Part II, Prop. XI, Prob. VI
46 Newton: Book 1 Part II, Exper. 15. Coleridge: N 2357, 3159. Turner: Finberg, Life, pp. 69, 163
47 Turner: James Hamilton and others, Turner and the Elements (Exhibition catalogue, 2011), p. 63. Goethe: Faust, Part 2, Act I
FALLING EARTHWARDS
1 Ravilious: to Tirzah, Sept. 1940; to HB, 5 Aug. 1935 (LLD 165)
2 Coleridge: N 2044. Clare: ‘The Ragwort’. Whitman: Specimen Days, ‘Mulleins and Mulleins’ (1877)
3 Van Gogh: Letter to Theo, late Aug. 1888. Jefferies, Letters & Papers, p. 131; ‘The Sun in the Brook’. Clare: Journal, 17 Nov. 1824. Donne: ‘The Primrose’. Clare: ‘The Autobiography’ (CP, p. 24). Hopkins: Journal, 15 April 1871; 6 May 1871
4 Clare: Journal, 23 April 1825. Jefferies: ‘A Place of Enchantment’
5 Chaucer: The Legend of Good Women, Prologue
6 Coleridge: N 1476, 2565, 3233, 2778, 2511, 15
7 Thoreau: Emerson in Atlantic Monthly, Aug. 1862. Jefferies: ‘The Pageant of Summer’. St Bridget: Alexander Carmichael, Carmina gadelica: Hymns and incantations…orally collected in the Highlands and islands of Scotland (1928–71), vol. 1, pp. 167–68; Lady Gregory, The Blessed Trinity of Ireland: Stories of St Brigit, St Columcille and St Patrick, passim
8 Palmer: Letter to John Linnell, 1828. Hudson: Nature in Downland, pp. 5–6
9 Coleridge: N 799. Milk: Carmina gadelica; vol. I, p. 265. Hopkins: Letter to Baillie, 1 May 1888
10 Traherne: Centuries, 3.3. Hopkins: Letter of 1 March 1870; Journal, 27 Sept. 1873. Thoreau: ‘Night and Moonlight’, Atlantic Monthly, 1863
11 Hopkins: Extract from early diaries, HH, p. 32. Herbert: ‘The Starre’. Vaughan: SS 1, ‘Midnight Son-Dayes’
12 Galileo: ‘The Starry Messenger’, para. 2. Jefferies: Story of my Heart, pp. 171–72. Hopkins: Journal, 22 July 1868
13 Whitman: ‘Song of Myself’, 33. Coleridge: N 330; 667. Torquemada: Pérez Galdós, Torquemada en la hoguera, Ch.VIII. Traherne: Centuries, 1. 29, 3.46
14 Traherne: Centuries, 4.20. Book of Enoch, 19
15 Hopkins: Journal, 27 Nov. 1872. Thoreau: Journal, 21 Jan. 1838
16 Clare: ‘Winter’. Job 38: 22–23, 28–29. Herbert: ‘Artillery’; ‘The Banquet
17 Thoreau: Journal, 5 Jan. 1856. White: Selborne, Letter LXII. Traherne: ‘Thanksgiving for the Body’; ‘My Spirit’
18 Coleridge: N 2031, 2363. Newton: Opticks, Book 3 Part I, Qu. 29. Thoreau: Journal, 16 Oct. 1858. Jefferies: ‘Summer in Somerset’. Wordsworth: Prelude (1850), Book 1, 450–52
19 Whitman: Specimen Days, ‘Night of March 18, 1879’ and ‘Hudson River Sights’; ‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer’; Specimen Days, 26 Aug. 1877, ‘Distant Sounds’, ‘Hours for the Soul’ and ‘Another Winter Night’ (1879)
20 Van Gogh: Letters to Theo, April and mid-July 1888. Whitman: Specimen Days, ‘The Weather – Does it Sympathise with these Times?’; ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’; Specimen Days, Night of March 18, 1879. Clare: ‘The Sorrows of Love’. Coleridge: N 4055
21 Palmer: Letter from Tintern, 19 Aug. 1835. Hopkins: Journal, 9 July 1868
22 Hopkins: ‘The Starlight Night’
23 Coleridge: N 3700. Blake: ‘The Gates of Paradise’, Engraving 9. Coleridge: N 219. Hopkins: ‘Moonrise’
24 Coleridge: ‘Soliloquy of the Full Moon, She Being in a Mad Passion’; N 2610. Dorothy Wordsworth: ‘The Moon Rose large and dull’. Heraclitus: Fragments, 37. Coleridge: N 1042. Traherne: ‘On Leaping over the Moon’
25 Thoreau: ‘Night and Moonlight’, Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1863. Blake: ‘Jerusalem’, 66. Hopkins: Poem of September 1862. Coleridge: N 2052, 2060. Whitman: ‘Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking’
26 Galileo: ‘The Starry Messenger’
27 Thoreau: ‘Night and Moonlight’, op. cit. Whitman: Specimen Days, ‘The White House by Moonlight’. Coleridge: N 2546. Palmer: AHP, p. 4. Milton: ‘Arcades’ 2. Song
28 Palmer: 1824 Sketchbook, p. 2; AHP, p. 40
29 Traherne: ‘On Leaping over the Moon’. Ravilious: Remark to Edward Bawden, cited in Helen Binyon, Eric Ravilious, Memoir of an Artist (1983)
30 Clare: ‘The Autobiography’ (CP, pp. 13, 28). Traherne: Centuries, 3.14. Donne: ‘The Sunne Rising’
31 Kilvert: Diary, 11 July 1870
32 ‘The maidens came’: MS Harley 7578. Ravilious: to John O’Connor, 10 Aug. 1940, in Ravilious at War: The Complete Work of September 1939–1942, ed. Anne Ullman (Fleece Press, 2002) Kilvert: Diary, 14 Oct. 1870
33 Jefferies: ‘The Sun and the Brook’; Story of my Heart, pp. 18–19. Traherne: ‘Shadows in the Water’
34 Hopkins: Journal, 18 July 1873; 7 Aug. 1872. Ravilious: to DT, 20 Feb. 1939 (LLD 404); to Celia Dunbar Kilburn, 16 Nov. 1939; to HB, 10 Sept. 1939 (LLD 445). Dudeney: ‘Glimpses of our Ancestors in Sussex’ (online)
35 Cellini, Autobiography, Ch. CXXII. Blake: Milton, Book the First
36 Donne: ‘The Sun Rising’. Herbert: ‘Christmas’, I and II. Traherne: Centuries, 3.18. Clare: Natural History Letters (CP, p. 173). Vaughan: SS I, ‘Rules and Lessons’. Newton: Opticks, Book 1 Part II, Prop. IX, Prob. IV. Herschel: Cited in Hamilton and others, Turner and the Elements, p. 53
37 Blake: Alexander Gilchrist, Life of William Blake (1863), Ch. 1; letter to Flaxman, Sept. 1800 (WBW, p. 1540); ‘Europe: A Prophecy’. Kilvert: Diary, 12 July 1870
38 Kilvert: Diary, 24 June (‘Longest Day’), 1873. Vaughan: SS I, ‘Religion’. Blake: Gilchrist, op. cit., Ch. XXXVI
39 Traherne: Centuries, 3.27, 28. Dante: DC, Paradiso XXI, 34–39. Milton: PL XII, 629–32. Blake: Alan Cunningham, The Cabinet Gallery of Pictures (1833), I, 11–13; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
40 Blake: Letter to Butts, 10 Jan. 1802 (WBW, p. 1558). Palmer: 1824 Sketchbook, p. 118; AHP, p. 201. Ravilious: to Douglas Percy Bliss, Sept. 1927 (LLD 24)
41 Milton: ‘Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity’. Milton: PL I, 45; IV, 556–57
42 Blake: Poetical Sketches: ‘Song’. García Márquez: ‘A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings’
43 Blake: Poems from MSS, c 1793. Book of Enoch 106, 1–6
44 Genesis 32: 24–30. Dante: Vita Nuova, V Milton: PL V, 433
45 Whitman: ‘Song of Myself’, 41. Clare: Journal, 24 May 1825. Kilvert: Diary, 31 Dec. 1877. Job 37: 11–16
46 Milton: PL XI, 204–7. Dante: Vita Nuova, XIV. Coleridge: N 983. Masefield: Grace Before Ploughing (1917, reprinted 1966), Ch. 11: ‘The Angel’. Jefferies, ‘Winds of Heaven’
47 Collins: quoted in ‘Fallen Angels’ by Peter Fuller (Images of God, various authors, 1985). Whitman: Specimen Days, ‘The Weather – Does it Sympathise with these Times?’ Palmer: AHP, p. 113; letter to John Linnell, 1828. Donne: ‘Air and Angels’. Milton: PL V, 745–47
48 Dante: DC, Paradiso XV, 13–18. Coleridge: N 549
CATCH AS CATCH CAN
1 Ravilious: to Douglas Percy Bliss, 15 Oc
t. 1927 (LLD 50) to DT, 20 Feb. 1939 (LLD 404)
2 Ravilious: to DT, 20 Feb. 1939 (LLD 404). Einstein: Autobiographical Notes, pp. 52–53
3 Heaney: ‘Squarings’, from Seeing Things (Faber, 1991). Newton: Opticks, Book 2 Part III, Prop. XI
4 Newton: Opticks, Book 1 Part I, Prop. II, Theor. II, Expers 5, 6 and 10 (Illustration)
5 Newton: Prop. IV, Prob. I, Exper. 11; Prop. VII, Theor. VI; Exper. 16; Book 3, Part I, Qu. 3; Book 2 Part III, Prop. XIII; Prop. XII; Book 3, Part I, Qu. 3
6 Walton: The Compleat Angler, Ch. 13. Coleridge: Ancient Mariner, IV
7 Newton: Opticks, Book 1 Part I, Prop. I, Theor. I. Clare: Memories of Childhood: ‘Chusing Friends’ and ‘Leisure’
8 Palmer: AHP, pp. 187, 282; Sketchbook, p. 74; AHP, p. 289; SPVL, p. 228
9 Coleridge: N 54. Thoreau: Journal, 12 Dec. 1851. Jefferies: Bevis, The Story of a Boy (1882), pp. 265–66. Newton: Opticks, Book 3 Part I, Obs. V. Hopkins: Journal, 29 June 1872
10 Coleridge: N 481; 1770. Van Gogh: Letter to Theo, Sept. 1882. Goethe: Truth and Poetry, Part 2, VI. Turner: Walter Thornbury, The Life of J.M.W. Turner RA (in two vols, 1862), Vol. 1, p. 125. Palmer: AHP, p. 97
11 Ravilious: to Cyril Bertram, 2 and 9 Dec. 1928. Hopkins: Journal, 18 May 1870; 2 March 1871. Ravilious: Remark to Edward Bawden, cited in Alan Powers, Eric Ravilious, Imagined Realities (Exhibition catalogue, 2003), p. 38. Blake: Descriptive Catalogue, 1 and 6
12 Palmer: AHP, pp. 79, 363, 89. Blake: ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’, plate 14
13 Notebook memorandum, ‘To Wood cut on copper’
14 William of Conches: Dragmaticon. Dante: DC, Paradiso II, 110–11; XXV, 79–81. Newton: Opticks, Book 3 Part I, Qu. 8. Hopkins: Journal, 4 April 1870. Coleridge: Letter to Godwin, 25 March 1801
15 Monet: R. Kendall, Monet by Himself (Chartwell Books, 2000), p. 191. Ravilious: to Tirzah, 10 Dec. 1939 (LLD 459); to HB, 15 Feb. 1938 (333); to Tirzah, 3 March 1938 (336)
16 Ravilious to HB, 1 March 1937 (291). Rich: Water Colour Painting, pp. 37, 43. Ravilious: to HB, 19 Dec. 1935 (97); to DT, 25 June 1939 (428). Rich: op. cit., p. 17
17 Constable: John Gage, Constable’s Clouds (Exhibition catalogue, 2000), pp. 59–68 passim
18 Constable: Gage, Constable’s Clouds, pp. 73, 103, 168. Hopkins: Letter to Baillie, 12 Feb. 1888
19 Hopkins: Journal, Dec.–Jan. 1873–74. Ravilious: to HB, 9 May 1935 (LLD 127) and 12 April 1937 (295)
20 Goethe: Faust, Prologue. Blake: Letter to George Cumberland, 12 April 1827 (WBW, p. 1667)
21 Palmer: AHP, pp. 60, 100; Sketchbook, pp. 114, 11; SPVL, p. 89; AHP, p. 82. Blake: Marginalia to Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Discourses (WBW, p. 1450)
22 Palmer: AHP, pp. 82, 91, 111, 113, 292. Ravilious: to DT, 10 Sept. 1939 (LLD 446). Palmer: AHP, pp. 178, 55, 111
23 Van Gogh: Letters to Theo, April 1885 and Sept. 1882
24 Palmer: AHP, 166. Goethe: Theory of Colours, 13; Truth and Poetry, Part 8. Turner: Hamilton and others, Turner and the Elements, p. 76. Ravilious: to HB, 17 Sept. 1935 (LLD 170). Turner: Hamilton, op. cit., p. 62
25 Palmer: AHP, pp. 144; 265–66; 172; letter to Alexander Gilchrist, c. April 1861
26 Palmer: AHP, p. 112. Monet: Kendall, Monet by Himself, p. 196. Palmer: AHP, pp. 319, 243, 319. Turner: Thornbury, Life, p. 359
27 Finberg, Life, p. 134. Ravilious on tempera: to Edward Bawden, cited in Binyon, Memoir of an Artist, p. 30; to HB, 25–26 Feb. 1936 (LLD 203)
28 Ravilious to HB, 19 Aug. 1941. Coleridge: N 1577, 1489; 1495; Biographia Literaria, Book X; N 1782; ‘To the Rev. George Coleridge’; N 4013
29 Coleridge: N 1681; 3291; 2370
30 Coleridge: N 1771; 1766
31 Palmer: AHP, p. 80. Hopkins: Journal, 23 July 1874. R.S. Thomas: ‘The Bright Field’
32 Coleridge: N 2093; 1577
33 Vaughan: ‘Jacob’s Pillar and Pillow’. Coleridge: N 3852
34 Herbert: ‘The Elixir’. Traherne: Centuries, 3.16; ‘Poverty’; Centuries, 3.16
35 Traherne: ‘Hosanna’. Jefferies: ‘Hours of Spring’. Ravilious: to HB, 25 July 1936 (LLD 251)
36 Coleridge: N 2191. Ravilious: Eric Ravilious and J.M. Richards, High Street, passim
37 Ravilious to HB, 27 Nov. 1935 (LLD 186); Blake: Marginalia to Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Discourses (WBW, p. 1468)
38 Palmer: SPVL, p. 37; AHP, p. 105; SPVL, pp. 76, 128; AHP, pp. 13, 133; letter to Alexander Gilchrist, 23 Aug. 1855
39 Coleridge: N 1973, 1974. Thoreau: (Journal, 16 June 1840); 27 Feb. 1841; Walden, ‘Baker Farm’
40 Thoreau: Journal, 8 Jan. 1857. Blake: Letter to John Trusler, 23 Aug. 1799 (WBW, p. 1527). Palmer: AHP, pp. 113, 81, 291; 1824 Sketchbook, p. 1
41 Palmer: 1824 Sketchbook, p. 18
IMMORTAL DIAMOND
1 Hopkins: Journal, 2 March 1876. Ravilious: to HB, May 1940; to DT, May–June 1940
2 Blake: ‘Jerusalem’. Traherne: ‘An Hymne upon St Bartholomew’s Day’; ‘Mattens’. Vaughan: SS 1, ‘The Tempest’. Donne: ‘A Valediction: Of my Name in the Window’. Newton: Opticks, Book 1 Part II, Prop. X, Prob. V. Hopkins: Journal, 30 Aug. 1867
3 Hopkins: Journal, 21 April 1871. Jefferies: Letters & Papers, p. 218; ‘On the Downs’. Hopkins: Extracts from early diaries, 1866 (HH p. 53); ‘The May Magnificat’; ‘The Wreck of The Deutschland’. 16; Unfinished fragment, ‘The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down …’;
4 Hopkins: Journal, 11 July 1868. Clare: ‘The Autobiography’ (CP, p. 12). Ravilious: to HB, 13 May 1936 (LLD 218). Hudson: Nature in Downland, pp. 150, 41–2
5 Palmer: AHP, p. 82
6 Palmer, AHP, p. 98; letter to Barlow, 1876; AHP, p. 10
7 Palmer: AHP 15–16, 173, 103
8 Blake: cited in Gilchrist, op. cit., p. 302. Palmer: AHP, p. 296. Dante: DC, Paradiso XV, 24. Kilvert: Diary, 27 April 1873, 24 June 1875, 12 April 1876
9 Palmer: 1824 Sketchbook, pp. 111–12. Hopkins: Journal, Dec. 1873 (HH, p. 187). Blake: ‘I heard an Angel’. Jefferies: JE, ‘One of the new Voters’. Van Gogh: Letter to Theo, Aug./Sept. 1888
10 Van Gogh: Letter to Theo, 11 Aug. 1888. Clare: ‘The Autobiography’ (CP, p. 27)
11 Clare: Fragment for ‘An Essay on Landscape’ (CP, pp. 214–15); ‘Winter’; ‘The Foddering Boy’. Traherne: ‘On Christmas-day’. Ravilious: to DT, 18 Dec. 1938 (LLD 397); to DT, 28–29 Nov. 1939 (LLD 458); to HB, 11 June 1935 (LLD 148)
12 Tagore: Reminiscences Ch. 34, ‘Morning Songs’
13 Merton: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander. Blake: Letter to Hayley, 16 Sept. 1800 (WBW, pp. 1539–40); ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’. Traherne: Centuries, 3.3; ‘A Contemplation’; Centuries, 1.66, 2.51
14 Ravilious: to HB, 23 March 1935 (LLD 113) spelling as in his edition
15 Ravilious: to HB, 15 Aug. 1935 (LLD 167); HB to ER, 25 March 1935 (114). Vaughan: SS 1, ‘Ascension-hymn’; Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress, Section 3. Genesis 37: 9. Newton: Opticks, Book 3 Part I, Obs. 1
16 Cellini: Autobiography, Ch. CXXVIII. Thoreau: Walden, ‘Baker Farm’. Whitman: ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’
17 Goethe: Theory of Colours, 30, 100, 54, 28, 52. Coleridge: N 3606
18 Coleridge: N 3708, 1108, 551, 410–18 passim
19 Coleridge: N 258, 3466
20 Coleridge: N 447, 2052, 2105, 174, 3708; letter to Godwin, 25 March 1801
21 Jefferies: Story of my Heart, p. 107. Donne: ‘The Canonisation’. Dorothy Wordsworth: Journal, 17 March 1802. Clare: ‘The Autobiography’ (CP, p. 85). Whitman: ‘Sparkles from the Wheel’; Traherne: Centuries, 3.7. Job 29: 2–4. Dante: DC, Paradiso CXXX, 52–54
22 Coleridge: N 2348, 2934
23 Hopkins: Journal, 19 Dec. 1872; ‘The Candle Indoors’; ‘The Lantern out of Doors’
24 Thoreau: Walden, ‘Where I Lived …’, ‘Solitude’
25 Hopkins: Journal, 1870 (HH, p. 132). Clare: ‘Willow-wisps’, (CP, pp. 167–68). Empedocles: On Nature, B 84
26 Traherne: Centuries, 2.51; ‘Nature’. Goethe: Theory of Colours, Introduction. Blak
e: ‘The Gates of Paradise’, frontispiece: ‘What is Man?’ Traherne: ‘An Infant-Ey’
27 Traherne: Centuries, 2.90, 2.65; ‘The Improvment’; Centuries, 1.80, 2.60, 2.71; ‘Silence’. Herbert: ‘The Windows’; ‘Christmas’. Blake: Cited in Gilchrist, op. cit., p. 325
28 Blake: Letter to Butts, 1802; cited in Gilchrist, op. cit., p. 335
29 Vaughan: SS 1 ‘Rules and Lessons’. Blake: ‘A Vision of the Last Judgment’. Milton: PL VII, 29–30. Whitman: ‘Song of Myself’, 553–54
30 Thoreau: ‘Night and Moonlight’, The Atlantic, Nov. 1863; Walden, ‘Where I lived’
31 Coleridge: N 2637, 4036, 3222, 4375
32 Newton: Opticks, Book 1 Part II, Prop. VII, Th. V; Book 1 Part II, Prop. VII. Th. V; Trinity notebook (1666). Milton: PL III, 3; letter of 28 Sept. 1654. Coleridge: N 2372, 1681
33 Dorothy Wordsworth: Journal, 15 April 1802. Blake: Letter to Hayley, Oct. 1804 (WBW, p. 1614). Milton: PL III, 51–55
34 Coleridge: N 1678 (STC’s paraphrase of Enneads 5.5 and 5.8). Hopkins: ‘The Habit of Perfection’. Plotinus: Enneads 5.7. Hermes Trismegistus: The Divine Pymander X. 4
35 Symeon: See Hilarion Alfeyev, St Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition (OUP, 2000), pp. 226–39 passim. Thoreau: Journal, 16 July 1851. Traherne: ‘On News’; Centuries, 3.26, 4.83
36 Böhme: Confessions, X. Dante, DC, Paradiso II, 34–36. Hopkins: ‘The Candle Indoors’. Coleridge: N 2435. Newton: Opticks, Book 2 Part III, Prop. II
37 Palmer: AHP, p. 78. Newton: Opticks, Book 3 Part I, Qu. 30; Book 2 Part III, Prop. X. Traherne: Centuries, 2.76. Hopkins: ‘To what serves Mortal Beauty?’
38 Hopkins: ‘That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire, and of the comfort of the Resurrection’; ‘Carrion Comfort’; ‘Poetry and Verse’
39 Dante: DC, Paradiso II, 17, 23–25. Vaughan: ‘They are all gone into the world of light’. Traherne: Centuries, 3.3; ‘Wonder’; Centuries, 3.1; ‘The City’; ‘Thoughts. I’; Centuries, 5.8,9; 4.73
40 Traherne ‘Insatiableness’ II; Christian Ethicks. Goethe: Conversation with Eckermann, 1824
41 Whitman: ‘Song of Myself’, 33; Specimen Days, ‘Hours for the Soul’, 22 July 1878; ‘Song of Myself’, 46; ‘Noiseless Patient Spider’. Thoreau: Journal, 31 Jan. 1841