{"id":16760,"date":"2015-05-12T01:52:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T00:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16760"},"modified":"2015-05-12T02:07:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T01:07:08","slug":"laurence-housmans-end-of-elfintown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/05\/12\/laurence-housmans-end-of-elfintown\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurence Housman\u2019s End of Elfintown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elfin01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/elfin01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More Laurence Housman, and a book I&#8217;d not seen before. Jane Barlow&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/endofelfintown00barluoft\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The End of Elfintown<\/em><\/a> (1894) is a typical piece of Victorian fairy poetry\u2014her &#8220;elves&#8221; are also flower-dwelling &#8220;Fays&#8221;, and Oberon is mentioned\u2014but Housman&#8217;s renderings give a very different impression. In place of the usual delicate creatures he shows a very sensual company, all satyr ears and enormous Pre-Raphaelite manes. The frontispiece is very Beardsley-like, especially those entwined roses.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elfin02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/elfin02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elfin03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/elfin03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elfin04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/elfin04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elfin05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/elfin05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elfin06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/elfin06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elfin07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/elfin07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elfin08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/elfin08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elfin09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/elfin09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elfin10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/elfin10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elfin11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/elfin11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elfin12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/elfin12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elfin13.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/elfin13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elfin14.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/elfin14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elfin15.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/elfin15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/05\/11\/the-reflected-faun\/\">The Reflected Faun<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Laurence Housman, and a book I&#8217;d not seen before. Jane Barlow&#8217;s The End of Elfintown (1894) is a typical piece of Victorian fairy poetry\u2014her &#8220;elves&#8221; are also flower-dwelling &#8220;Fays&#8221;, and Oberon is mentioned\u2014but Housman&#8217;s renderings give a very different impression. In place of the usual delicate creatures he shows a very sensual company, all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/05\/12\/laurence-housmans-end-of-elfintown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laurence Housman\u2019s End of Elfintown&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,21,48],"tags":[7307,7304],"class_list":["post-16760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","tag-jane-barlow","tag-laurence-housman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4mk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}