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1alexa_d
Mrz. 1, 2008, 1:14 pm

Who are everyone's favorite bohemians? Writers, musicians, artists, what have you...

French is my second language, so I have a special place in my heart for Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, and Charles Baudelaire. Keats and Wilde are on my list too, and hell, I think William Blake counts. And on this side of the fin-de-siècle, I adore Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, and Tom Robbins.

2newmoondrops
Mrz. 2, 2008, 12:53 am

If you like poets, my favorite bohemian poet is Lord Byron. I haven't had time to re-learn that little French I learned in high school, but I would love to read Baudelaire!

3bazling
Mrz. 2, 2008, 4:54 am

I second Wilde. I almost couldn't breathe when I finished The Picture of Dorian Gray. And he's much more of a modern bohemian, but I'm in love with just about anything of Nick Bantock's. Especially The Venetian's Wife, and the Griffin and Sabine books.

4EncompassedRunner
Mrz. 2, 2008, 10:14 pm

5alexa_d
Mrz. 5, 2008, 7:47 pm

#4, that was hilarious! I can't believe I missed that!

6fanakapan
Mrz. 7, 2008, 4:20 am

Wilde for sure, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, the pre-Raphaelites are an interesting bunch and I love Thoreau and Walt Whitman. Favourite living author, China Mieville, a simply amazing writer, jaw droppingly good.
Music-wise, Dresden Dolls, Regina Spector, Postal Service and my all time favourite, Nick Drake.

7elle.wilson
Mrz. 10, 2008, 1:07 am

I've just discovered the music of Carla Bruni, the former Italian supermodel and lover of Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger and possibly (I hope!) Marianne Faithfull. She just married Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France. She has a few albums out now, and her latest is utterly lovely and bohemian and breathy, and the images on the album cover appealingly bohemian, as well. (Carla Bruni, Promises to Keep)

8cuffindell
Mrz. 13, 2008, 12:29 pm

I just have to add my two cents in... My favorite bohemians include: Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of Mary Shelley and author of Maria, or the wrongs of woman and Vindication of the Rights of Women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who wrote The Solitude of Self, Charlotte Perkins Gilman author of The Yellow Wallpaper, and poet Christina Rossetti, Julia Margaret Cameron, one of the first women photographers in the 19th century, famous for her Arthurian-themed portraits, and singer Joni Mitchell.

9BananaHead
Mrz. 14, 2008, 6:51 am

Er, Neil Young. I love the guy. Oh, and Gordon Lightfoot too. Are folkies Bohemians? I think they are.

10rslynch
Mrz. 18, 2008, 2:58 pm

Rossetti's "Goblin Market" is wonderful! We all got a kick out of it in college with the STD fruit and our prof telling us we all had dirty minds w/a straight face, knowing he was putting up a front.

Would you count The Awakening by Kate Chopin? I think she drifts toward bohemianism.

11newmoondrops
Mrz. 18, 2008, 3:51 pm

I love The Awakening! I think there could definitely be a Bohemian slant there. I mainly enjoyed it as an early piece of feminist literature.

12unknown_zoso05
Mai 29, 2008, 5:38 pm

When it comes comes to bohemians, I usually stick with the French, such as Baudelaire, Flaubert, Zola, and Hugo (he was more of a bobo instead of boho). I adore Byron and Kerouac!

13varielle
Aug. 2, 2016, 10:45 am

I always think artists. Mucha and Schiele are some favorites of mine.