https://www.clayfjohnson.com/poems daily 0.75 2025-07-31 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/poems/the-faery-wood-brian-nisbet-poetry-award monthly 0.5 2025-07-31 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/poems/the-hecatean-ides monthly 0.5 2023-07-09 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/poems/the-queen-of-the-night monthly 0.5 2023-07-09 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/poems/keats-stone monthly 0.5 2025-07-31 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/poems/edinburgh-ecstasies monthly 0.5 2023-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/868a13ad-d978-4d8d-be01-9c963793a43e/Edinburgh+Ecstasies+Clay+Franklin+Johnson.jpg Poetry - Edinburgh Ecstasies - Make it stand out Illustration to “Edinburgh Ecstasies”, printed in A Ride Through Faerie & Other Poems (2021) by Clay Franklin Johnson, published by Gothic Keats Press https://www.clayfjohnson.com/poems/whitby-abbey monthly 0.5 2021-11-08 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/poems/my-little-green-secret monthly 0.5 2023-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/8b9e20f4-0acb-4e03-b13e-5049fde7be74/My+Little+Green+Secret+Poem+Clay+F+Johnson.jpg Poetry - My Little Green Secret - Make it stand out Illustration to “My Little Green Secret”, available in A Ride Through Faerie & Other Poems (2021) by Clay Franklin Johnson, published by Gothic Keats Press https://www.clayfjohnson.com/poems/the-ladies-of-lancashire monthly 0.5 2020-08-18 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/poems/the-promise-of-a-polidori-sore-throat monthly 0.5 2020-04-21 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/poems/frozen-starlight monthly 0.5 2022-11-06 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/poems/krysten monthly 0.5 2020-08-18 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/poems/ghosts-of-1816 monthly 0.5 2020-04-21 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/poems/finding-hecate monthly 0.5 2020-08-18 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/poems/she-walks-in-moonlight monthly 0.5 2020-08-18 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/writings daily 0.75 2025-05-05 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/writings/british-association-for-romantic-studies-romantic-poets-clay-franklin-johnson monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/f815ee01-77ff-4b18-94f3-c3ec711dbb84/British+Association+for+Romantic+Studies+BARS+Clay+Franklin+Johnson.jpg Writings - The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), “Romantic Poets” Series - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.clayfjohnson.com/writings/brian-nisbet-poetry-award-george-macdonald-clay-franklin-johnson monthly 0.5 2024-12-19 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/writings/on-the-200th-anniversary-of-lord-byrons-death monthly 0.5 2024-10-24 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/writings/gramarye-journal-gothic-faerie-clay-franklin-johnson monthly 0.5 2024-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/1685129640142-5KVOCR9VKZ40YSPIVKKB/Ill+Met+by+Moonlight+Open+Graves+Open+Minds+A+Ride+Through+Faerie+Clay+F+Johnson.jpg Writings - “A 19th-century influence of Gothic Faerie: The fairy tree, fairy lover, fairy art, and fairy revenge in Clay Franklin Johnson’s poem ‘A Ride Through Faerie’” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/1685168670405-JLUREAT35XHGO6Q8F37I/John+Anster+Fitzgerald+Artists+Dream+Clay+Franklin+Johnson.jpg Writings - “A 19th-century influence of Gothic Faerie: The fairy tree, fairy lover, fairy art, and fairy revenge in Clay Franklin Johnson’s poem ‘A Ride Through Faerie’” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/1685168715718-KCZXIZ6KVYIU687DWU57/John+Anster+Fitzgerald+Fairy+Funeral+William+Blake+Clay+F+Johnson.jpg Writings - “A 19th-century influence of Gothic Faerie: The fairy tree, fairy lover, fairy art, and fairy revenge in Clay Franklin Johnson’s poem ‘A Ride Through Faerie’” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/1685129776843-N0VI5ODVC6ABNUQKX0XD/Clay+Franklin+Johnson+John+Anster+Fitzgerald+Ill+Met+by+Moonlight+A+Ride+Through+Faerie.jpg Writings - “A 19th-century influence of Gothic Faerie: The fairy tree, fairy lover, fairy art, and fairy revenge in Clay Franklin Johnson’s poem ‘A Ride Through Faerie’” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/1685135300742-CTKLZH0ZYFN0Q25RYINW/Walter+Crane+La+Belle+Dame+sans+Merci+Clay+Franklin+Johnson.jpg Writings - “A 19th-century influence of Gothic Faerie: The fairy tree, fairy lover, fairy art, and fairy revenge in Clay Franklin Johnson’s poem ‘A Ride Through Faerie’” - Walter Crane La Belle Dame sans Merci (1865) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/1685135353673-Y9O5BOIBDVKSLLFJRB2C/La+Belle+Dame+sans+Merci+Waterhouse+A+Ride+Through+Faerie.jpg Writings - “A 19th-century influence of Gothic Faerie: The fairy tree, fairy lover, fairy art, and fairy revenge in Clay Franklin Johnson’s poem ‘A Ride Through Faerie’” - John William Waterhouse La Belle Dame sans Merci (1893) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/1685135389803-FUES9LPH7M1UGSFX12NO/Frank+Dicksee+La+Belle+Dame+sans+Merci+1901+A+Ride+Through+Faerie.jpg Writings - “A 19th-century influence of Gothic Faerie: The fairy tree, fairy lover, fairy art, and fairy revenge in Clay Franklin Johnson’s poem ‘A Ride Through Faerie’” - Frank Dicksee La Belle Dame sans Merci (c. 1901) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/1685135404606-HXVTK1KLOVBNY2DBYG4P/Henry+Meynell+Rheam+La+Belle+Dame+sans+Merci+Clay+F.+Johnson+John+Keats.jpg Writings - “A 19th-century influence of Gothic Faerie: The fairy tree, fairy lover, fairy art, and fairy revenge in Clay Franklin Johnson’s poem ‘A Ride Through Faerie’” - Henry Meynell Rheam La Belle Dame sans Merci (1901) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/1685135419810-CIDKVF3PUHL469Q01UBD/Frank+Cadogan+Cowper+La+Belle+Dame+sans+Merci+Clay+F+Johnson.jpg Writings - “A 19th-century influence of Gothic Faerie: The fairy tree, fairy lover, fairy art, and fairy revenge in Clay Franklin Johnson’s poem ‘A Ride Through Faerie’” - Frank Cadogan Cowper La Belle Dame sans Merci (1926) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/4467852d-e563-4128-9fa6-5946804072f8/My+beloved+Blue+and+Anna.jpg Writings - “A 19th-century influence of Gothic Faerie: The fairy tree, fairy lover, fairy art, and fairy revenge in Clay Franklin Johnson’s poem ‘A Ride Through Faerie’” - Make it stand out This is a detail from the third and final illustration to my poem “Lines Written by Moonlight at Whitby Abbey” that honors both my Blue and Anna — these are actual photographs of my beloved pooches incorporated into the illustration, and behind them is Boatswain’s Tomb, complete with “Epitaph to a Dog”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/1685165732279-H9YU27SLEROXJL25G2KT/Clay+Franklin+Johnson+Keats+La+Belle+Dame+sans+Merci+Ill+Met+by+Moonlight+Fairy+Lover.jpg Writings - 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The painting depicts a solitary vessel in stormy Italian seas in the Gulf of La Spezia, or the Gulf of Poets, beneath the ruins of Doria Castle and San Pietro, a Roman Catholic church built upon an ancient pagan temple. Just across the bay from Porto Venere is Casa Magni, Shelley’s last residence before his death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/6e20277b-ecc7-4661-9c33-79510cd132b0/Death+on+a+Pale+Horse+Percy+Bysshe+Shelley.jpg Writings - On the 200th Anniversary of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Death - Make it stand out Death on a Pale Horse (1796) by Benjamin West. Although Shelley draws heavily from the Book of Revelation, it is possible Shelley was familiar with West’s 1817 painting (based on the 1796 version above) which was both exhibited and written about at the time. Last came Anarchy: he rode On a white horse, splashed with blood; He was pale even to the lips, Like Death in the Apocalypse. And he wore a kingly crown, And in his grasp a sceptre shone; On his brow this mark I saw— ‘I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/58d91b32-111b-4399-9e6a-2027e96ea5ee/Keats+Listening+to+a+Nightingale+on+Hampstead+Heath+by+Joseph+Severn.jpg Writings - On the 200th Anniversary of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Death - Make it stand out Keats Listening to a Nightingale on Hampstead Heath (1845) by Joseph Severn. The nightingale is seen illumed by the moon in the top left corner of the painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/c044c3e2-4f33-4c11-932e-f23792e4a119/The+Grave+of+Keats+Clay+Franklin+Johnson.jpg Writings - On the 200th Anniversary of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Death - Make it stand out The Grave of Keats (1873) by Walter Crane. Before leaving Rome in 1873, Crane wrote, “I had, too, some little commissions to finish. Among these was a drawing of Keats’s grave at the Protestant Cemetery, which I had undertaken for Mr. George Howard, for whom the previous spring I had done a drawing of Shelley’s tomb.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/92024a38-3f7e-41b7-8d4c-ef269fe6ef62/Percy+Bysshe+Shelley%27s+Grave+Walter+Crane.jpg Writings - On the 200th Anniversary of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Death - Make it stand out The Grave of Shelley (1872) by Walter Crane. The grave of Shelley is located in the background, “beneath one of the antique weed-grown towers” of the Aurelian wall. In the same letter before leaving Rome in May of 1873, Crane continues, “Working in that restful garden, beneath the murmur of the cypresses, one might almost feel the spirits of the poets still haunted the place, and could understand the feeling expressed by Shelley that ‘it might make one almost in love with death to think that one should be buried in so sweet a spot.’ As an ardent admirer of both poets I was proud to offer my small tribute to their genius and memory.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/61dbd228-feb5-4a62-9665-11ed49931f73/Dante+Gabriel+Rossetti+Doppelganger.jpg Writings - On the 200th Anniversary of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Death - Make it stand out How They Met Themselves (1860) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Often in folklore, meeting one’s doppelgänger is thought to foreshadow one’s death. Strangely enough, Rossetti painted this particular version of the doppelgänger while on honeymoon with Elizabeth Siddal. Tragically, Siddal would die just two years later at the age of 32 from an overdose of laudanum. It was possibly suicide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/846fb524-505e-4e0b-81ce-405d1d4bb25c/Moon+Path+by+Ivan+Aivazovsky.jpg Writings - On the 200th Anniversary of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Death - Make it stand out Moon Path by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 – 1900). https://www.clayfjohnson.com/writings/gothic-keats-press monthly 0.5 2025-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/f7e7008b-90d5-48eb-bebf-99ca71e9c667/The+Fires+of+Ecstasy+at+Samhuinn+Clay+Franklin+Johnson.jpg Writings - My First Book of Poetry, Published by Gothic Keats Press - Make it stand out The illustration depicts the view from Calton Hill with Edinburgh’s Gothic skyline in the background, while the focal point represents the metamorphosis of the goddess Brìghde (associated with spring) into the blue-skinned Cailleach (from Old Irish Caillech, “veiled one”), also known in Scotland as Beira, Queen of Winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/d21f05ab-3761-457a-b12d-533089ad35e6/Clay+Johnson+Poet+Edinburgh+Ecstasies.jpg Writings - My First Book of Poetry, Published by Gothic Keats Press - Make it stand out Illustration for “Edinburgh Ecstasies”, inspired by my beloved Edinburgh, Percy Bysshe Shelley and his brilliant verse drama The Cenci (note the portrait of Beatrice Cenci incorporated into the illustration, which, according to Mary Shelley, “strongly excited” Percy’s imagination), and my time spent at The Jolly Botanist in Haymarket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/44d7fff1-906f-4298-be0f-25cef19e17b6/Clay+Franklin+Johnson+Whitby+Abbey.jpg Writings - My First Book of Poetry, Published by Gothic Keats Press - Make it stand out Illustration to “Lines Written by Moonlight at Whitby Abbey”, a poem that holds a special place within my heart. The third and final illustration, which includes actual photographs of my beloved dogs (they were both deeply on my mind at time of composition), a different view of Whitby Abbey, and even a ghostly phantasm of sorts of Boatswain’s Tomb, can be seen here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/fc83195c-43d1-4481-bc9c-8b6faf0a78ba/Clay+F+Johnson+My+Little+Green+Secret.jpg Writings - My First Book of Poetry, Published by Gothic Keats Press - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.clayfjohnson.com/writings/death-of-john-keats-200th-anniversary monthly 0.5 2021-04-01 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/writings/john-keats-last-letter-to-fanny-brawne-august-1820 monthly 0.5 2021-04-01 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/writings/john-keats-letters-to-fanny-brawne-march-1820 monthly 0.5 2024-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/1587432378356-60V1PG4KJS893M0A7FER/Clay+F+Johnson+Poet.jpg Writings - John Keats's Letters to Fanny Brawne, March 1820 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/1587432540814-Q1M9UA1KAS04QNX7250G/Clay+F+Johnson+Edgar+Allan+Poe.jpg Writings - John Keats's Letters to Fanny Brawne, March 1820 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/writings/john-keats-letter-to-fanny-brawne-13-october-1819 monthly 0.5 2023-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca2ccd0ab1a624e8b5d1dc9/1571864314242-J2DGN53DEZ6DWKK1BRJE/Clay+F+Johnson+Keats+House.jpg Writings - John Keats's Letter to Fanny Brawne, 13 October 1819 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/writings/john-keats-letter-to-fanny-brawne-25-july-1819 monthly 0.5 2025-07-25 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/writings/john-keats-letter-to-fanny-brawne-8-july-1819 monthly 0.5 2021-04-01 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/writings/john-keats-letter-to-fanny-brawne-1-july-1819 monthly 0.5 2021-04-01 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/writings/the-nightmare monthly 0.5 2021-04-01 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/writings/opening-post monthly 0.5 2021-04-01 https://www.clayfjohnson.com/home daily 1.0 2013-01-30