Tag: St Lucy’s Day

• The Year’s Midnight

  This portrait of Donne was painted around 1595, by an unknown artist, and is in National Portrait Gallery. Given the date (December 13), there is only one possible choice that could be made for today – John Donne’s A Nocturnall upon St Lucie’s Day, Being the shortest day. When he wrote it, possibly in 1627, the old Julian calendar was still…

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  December 13, 2011

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