Literary Snippets is a blog that matches a master painting with a short excerpt from a classic of literature. This site is a way for me to continue the exploration of paintings through literature.

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§ 457 · September 8, 2011 · Literature: Full Read · Comments Off · Tags: , ,


Mastsuo Basho The temple bell stops. But the sound keeps coming out of the flowers. Illustrated Basho Haikus

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§ 441 · March 29, 2011 · Literature: Full Read · Comments Off · Tags:


Percy Bysshe Shelley The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle – Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high [...]

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§ 434 · March 29, 2011 · Literature: Full Read · Comments Off · Tags:


The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet mad am I not—and very surely do I [...]

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§ 275 · February 25, 2010 · Edgar Allan Poe, Literature: Full Read · Comments Off · Tags: , ,