It also happens to be the date, in 1820, that John Keats arrives in Italy (Naples), in a last-ditched effort to get the Italian sun on his TB-ravaged body.

It's my birthday too, so I've written about Keats (and quoted your review of Bright Star, Mr. Ebert).

http://mapeel.blogspot.com/2010/10/finally-meeting-keats-on-spanish-stairs.html

Reading and listening to this gives me an appreciation of what a society open with its knowledge can give its citizens. I say this because I love Terry Gilliam and because I loved his movies so much I started to watch interviews he would give that then became available on DVDs and on the internet. When watching and reading these interviews he would always talk about how his movies and their visual influences. One of these influences is almost always Gustave Dore. Finding this out I then got my hands on his comic book like works for the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Divine Comedy.
You read these then read who they influence, who influenced them, and suddenly you are surrounded by what went into and what was born from a move towards beauty. How easy these are to find! How much the world can give us, looking, easy to find.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of my favorite Romantic era writers. I once wrote a paper where I theorized that Mary Shelley based her Dr. Frankenstein character on Samuel Coleridge Taylor.

He was brilliant enough to be called the voice of his generation, but he was undone by self destructive behavior. He was also an early advocate of natural philosophy, which formed the basis for modern scientific thought.

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I've never read/heard the Rime before. Is your version complete? It seems to end quite abruptly. I enjoyed Welles reading very much.

Ebert: See for yourself:

http://j.mp/bBjGse