Bottom's Dream discussion

His fav'rut =&=beloved colors, which always immediately=follos; we are dealing with sunset=hued values : POE was an erthrophiliac sun+downer! '. / : He once lived on a Carmin= Street in New York

POE is susceptible to the yellow-red=values of the speck-trumm - the monstrosity of colour He once said....

Anyway, I was interested in this reference to POE and colors.
POE did write The Masque of the Red Death with seven differently-colored rooms, each a different color of the speck-trumm. Probably relevant to this passage.



Read it here: http://poestories.com/read/masque (short read)

Also interesting: The English word "carmine" is derived from the French word carmin (12 c.), from Medieval Latin carminium, from Arabic qirmiz ("crimson"), which itself derives from Middle Persian carmir ("red, crimson"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine

BD87/ZT85 More red. Color and fragrance.

+ vagrant/red + olet
Or TAMERLANE

The hallow'd memory of those years/
comes o'er me in these lonely hours./
and, with sweet loveliness, appears/
as perfume of strange summer
flowers:/ of flow'rs which we have known before/
in infancy, which
seen, recall/ to mind- not flow'rs
alone-but more / our earthly life,
and lov- & all !

from Tamerlane by Poe: full text http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/B...

Poe may have first heard of Timur in July 1822 as a young man in Richmond, Virginia. A horse-spectacle called Timour the Tartar was staged at the Richmond theatre and repeated in October. Some Poe scholars speculate Poe was in attendance or at least heard of the show.[8]

Poe may have identified with the title character. He used "TAMERLANE" as a pseudonym attached to two of his poems on their first publication, "Fanny" and "To ——," both published in the Baltimore Saturday Visiter in 1833.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamerla...

Perhaps Poe was connecting red with Tamerlane's red hair. Tamerlane was believed to be an albino with red hair: https://www.scribd.com/document/10208...