Lanced Hearts of Lovers & Martyrs

I'm Eric, a young poet who seems to have been swept away in the Romantic Spirit of Beethoven's Symphonies, struck by the philosophies of Plato & the Poets' lyrics, burned for love like the martyrs of Rome, and can see an honest beauty in love & faith.

This blog is dedicated to my passions in Poetry, Literature, History, Philosophy, and Music, along with exploring the beauty and truth in the Christian faith-- how it rebels and transcends the ways of the world and burns it ablaze; preaches it's the Heart that counts, sings how Love endures, and that Truth is a beautiful Bride & hypocrisy a sin. It reveals that love is self-less, death is no end, and that there's no greater love than to lay down your life for your friends.

• Faith & Philosophy
• History (esp. 19th cen.-WWI)
• Poetry & Literature
• Catholicism

• Christ
• St. Justin Martyr
• Socrates
• Victor Hugo
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Richard Wagner

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"Reason directs those who are truly pious and philosophical to honour and love only what is true, declining to follow traditional opinions, if these be worthless."
-St. Justin Martyr

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  1. centuriespast: GIRODET DE ROUCY-TRIOSON, Anne-LouisOssian Receiving the Ghosts of French Heroes1802Oil on canvas, 192 x 184 cmMusée National du Château de Malmaison, Rueil The Epic of Ossian was received as a long-lost and breathtaking classic Celtic poem by the generation rising at the dawning cusp of the Age of Revolutions. Countless were intoxicated by it’s imagery; Thomas Jefferson was an impassioned fan; Napoleon carried a copy of it into battle; in it Goethe found the inspiration for the climax of The Sorrows of Young Wurther; both Franz Schubert composed Lieder, and Mendelsohnn his Hebrides Overture, to the imagery and verses of the epic; Ingres’ painting The Dream of Ossian was based off it. “Translated” by Joseph MacPherson (1736-1796) in the 18th Century, he claimed to have uncovered ancient 3rd Centutry Gaelic manuscripts, but was in a hoax the author himself. In this famous painting by Girodet, the blind poet Ossian receives a throng of Romantic heroes, battle-ready as they join in an assumption to Valhalla, above a train of fallen warriors from history.

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    GIRODET DE ROUCY-TRIOSON, Anne-Louis
    Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of French Heroes
    1802
    Oil on canvas, 192 x 184 cm
    Musée National du Château de Malmaison, Rueil

    The Epic of Ossian was received as a long-lost and breathtaking classic Celtic poem by the generation rising at the dawning cusp of the Age of Revolutions. Countless were intoxicated by it’s imagery; Thomas Jefferson was an impassioned fan; Napoleon carried a copy of it into battle; in it Goethe found the inspiration for the climax of The Sorrows of Young Wurther; both Franz Schubert composed Lieder, and Mendelsohnn his Hebrides Overture, to the imagery and verses of the epic; Ingres’ painting The Dream of Ossian was based off it. “Translated” by Joseph MacPherson (1736-1796) in the 18th Century, he claimed to have uncovered ancient 3rd Centutry Gaelic manuscripts, but was in a hoax the author himself.

    In this famous painting by Girodet, the blind poet Ossian receives a throng of Romantic heroes, battle-ready as they join in an assumption to Valhalla, above a train of fallen warriors from history.