On this most romantic of days, Sarah talks with Kristin about Romantic art and how it relates to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Then Sarah and Sam read the latest of the Agony Uncle column!

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The Agony Uncle column is written by @mrsbillycranston

Mentioned in the podcast, in order:

• Charles Baudelaire
• Waterhouse & Millais, Pre-Raphaelite painters
• Jacques Louis David - Oath of the Horatii
• John Constable, JMW Turner, William Blake
• Diderot
• further reading on the sublime would be Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry and also ‘The Sublime Today: Contemporary Readings in the Aesthetic’ which has a chapter on the twin towers
• Theodore Jericault quote about Raft of the Medusa
• Kristin’s blog: mrsbeefheart.blogspot.com
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• artists and their works under the cut:

William Blake - Europe a Prophecy

JMW Turner - Steamer in a Snowstorm

John Constable, Haywain, 1821

Caspar David Friedrich - WANDERER ABOVE A SEA OF FOG

Goya - The Giant

Jerricault - Raft of the Medusa

• The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis

Caspar David Friedrich painting that looks like Lost Hope!: