Tabla de contenidos para Autumn 2022 en Siegfried

Siegfried in autumn is the first morning your breath clouds the crystalline air. Pulling an old sweater from the hook off the back door, you step out among raised garden beds. A fox has ventured out of the woods in the night. On the lawn surrounding the kitchen garden, its late cabbages and peas able to withstand the cold, her paw prints have melted patches in the first frost. Siegfried in autumn is working on a manuscript with Glenn Gould on the stereo until an early darkness chases you to last night’s plum cake and a pot of Lapsang Souchong. There are those for whom autumn is a Meerschaum pipe taken next to a late afternoon bonfire. And there are those for whom it is the feel of flannel and…

We have been trying to hide it from each other, but the truth must now come out. Our house is haunted. Well, of course, anybody’s house might be haunted. Anybody might have a headless ghost walking about the battlements or the bathroom at midnight, and if it were no more than that, I should not trouble you with the details. But our house is haunted in a peculiar way. No house that I have heard of has ever been affected in quite this way before. I must begin by explaining that it is a new house, built just before the war. (Before the war, not after; this is a true story.) Its first and only tenant was a Mrs. Watson-Watson, who lived here with her daughter. Add her three servants,…

Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi was born in 1864 in Copenhagen. He began his drawing and painting studies at the age of eight, later continuing his education at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Hammershøi studied with fellow Danish painter Peder Severn Krøyer from 1883-85. His first international exhibition was in 1889 in Paris. In 1891, Hammershøi married Ida Ilsted, the sister of his friend and fellow artist Peter Ilsted. It was his marital homes with Ida — first in Rahbeks Allé and Åboulevarden and, later, Strandgade 30 — that demonstrate Hammershøi’s interest in the interior as a genre. It was in the latter, a seventeenth-century house in Copenhagen, where the artist’s masterful use of light flourished amongst the changing dynamics of light in each room. Hammershøi died on February…

Front Cover German School. A Hare Among Plants and Grasses, Oil on Canvas. c. 1800, private collection. https://artvee.com/dl/a-hare-among-plants-and-grasses/ DeWint, Peter. Harvest Time – Cumberland, Watercolour. n.d., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CN. https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8570 Monet, Claude. The Pave de Chailly in the Forest, Oil on Canvas. c. 1865. https://www.wikiart.org/en/claude-monet/the-pave-de-chailly-in-the-forest Harpignies, Henri-Joseph. Landscape at Famars, Watercolour over Graphite on Beige Wove Paper. 1863, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/460046 Continental School. Still Life of Apples, Oil on Canvas. c. 1800, private collection. https://artvee.com/dl/still-life-of-apples-2 Levitan Isaac. Autumn Fog, Watercolour Wash on Board. 1899. https://www.wikiart.org/en/isaac-levitan/mist-autumn-1899 Harnett, William Michael. New York Daily News, Oil on Wood. 1888, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10995 Hammershøi, Vilhelm. Interior With Two Candles, Oil on Canvas. 1904, private collection. https://artvee.com/dl/interior-with-two-candles ---.…

IT IS NOT WORTH TELLING, this story of mine — at least, not worth writing. Told, indeed, as I have sometimes been called upon to tell it, to a circle of intelligent and eager faces, lighted up by a good after-dinner fire on a winter’s evening, with a cold wind rising and wailing outside, and all snug and cosy within, it has gone off — though I say it, who should not — indifferent well. But it is a venture to do as you would have me. Pen, ink, and paper are cold vehicles for the marvellous, and a “reader” decidedly a more critical animal than a “listener.” If, however, you can induce your friends to read it after nightfall, and when the fireside talk has run for a while…

“LONDON. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes — gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another's umbrellas in a general infection of ill temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of…

Poetry Crapsey, Adelaide. “November Night.” poetry-foundation.org. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46253/november-night Sandburg, Carl. “Autumn Movement.” poetry-foundation.org. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=14219 Shakespeare, William. Macbeth from The Folger Shakespeare. Ed. Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine. Folger Shakespeare Library. https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/macbeth/entire-play/. Accessed 28 September 2022. An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan. An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street, March 24, 2004. Retrieved Sep tember 28, 2022, from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11699/11699-h/11699-h.htm "mollia tempora fandi, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, September 2022, www.oed.com/view/Entry/237122. Accessed 28 September 2022. "bivouac, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, September 2022, www.oed.com/view/Entry/19631. Accessed 28 September 2022. “mesmerism, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, September 2022, www.oed.com/view/Entry/116988. Accessed 1 October 2022. "electrobiology, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, September 2022, www.oed.com/view/Entry/60280. Accessed 28 September 2022. Chambers, Anne. Granuaile: Grace O'Malley -…