{"id":16764,"date":"2015-05-13T02:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16764"},"modified":"2015-05-13T02:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T01:27:00","slug":"laurence-housmans-the-sensitive-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/05\/13\/laurence-housmans-the-sensitive-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurence Housman&#8217;s The Sensitive Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sensitive02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sensitive02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shelley&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/sensitiveplant00shel\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Sensitive Plant<\/em><\/a> is a lengthy poem written after the death of Percy and Mary Shelley&#8217;s first child. Laurence Housman illustrates the sombre garden scenes in a minutely detailed manner, and manages to incorporate some concerns of his own. Pan isn&#8217;t mentioned in the poem but Housman adds a Pan figure which he describes in a note as &#8220;the garden deity&#8221;, and a symbol of nature untamed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sensitive01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sensitive01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sensitive03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sensitive03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sensitive04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sensitive04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sensitive05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sensitive05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sensitive06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sensitive06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sensitive07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sensitive07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sensitive08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sensitive08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sensitive09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sensitive09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sensitive10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sensitive10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sensitive11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sensitive11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sensitive12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sensitive12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sensitive13.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sensitive13.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\/12\/laurence-housmans-end-of-elfintown\/\">Laurence Housman\u2019s End of Elfintown<\/a><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>Shelley&#8217;s The Sensitive Plant is a lengthy poem written after the death of Percy and Mary Shelley&#8217;s first child. Laurence Housman illustrates the sombre garden scenes in a minutely detailed manner, and manages to incorporate some concerns of his own. Pan isn&#8217;t mentioned in the poem but Housman adds a Pan figure which he describes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/05\/13\/laurence-housmans-the-sensitive-plant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laurence Housman&#8217;s The Sensitive Plant&#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":[2,42,48],"tags":[7304,7308],"class_list":["post-16764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-laurence-housman","tag-percy-bysshe-shelley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4mo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16764","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=16764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}