UoCRomantics

Wander with us through the wonderful world of the Romantics! @UoCEnglish @uochester
Profile pic: The Ladies of Llangollen

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

New post: in the second in his series on 'Who was who' in the life of John Keats, @pumps1000 discusses John Hamilton Reynolds, Charles Armitage Brown, Joseph Severn, and Fanny Brawne

https://t.co/omSTTEtc7M

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

#OTD 1817 Keats writes "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination - What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth... O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!"

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

Fantastic edition of @BBCInOurTime on Wordsworth's Prelude - one of their original 'Essential 10' https://t.co/aanGKuLr0t @BBCRadio4

[The Blake Society @Blake_Society]

Join us on Wednesday 30 November at 8 PM (UK time) on zoom for the launch of issue 3 of VALA, the Journal of the Blake Society. This issue explores Blake, nature and the environment. All are welcome, please register at https://t.co/DFZrMHg3SV...

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

New post:

"...candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd;
With jellies soother than the creamy curd,
And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon..."

@garethhevans1 explores the origins of the delicious concoctions in Keats's Eve of St Agnes

https://t.co/mzBxaASIKb

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

#OTD 1814 Shelley writes to Mary Godwin "This separation is a calamity not to be endured patiently. I cannot support your absence. I thought that it would be less painful to me. But I feel a solitariness & a desolation of heart where you have been accustomed to be"

[Revenants and Remains. @rev_and_rem]

Latest podcast in our series: @DaleGothic96 on the aesthetics of ruin in the long eighteenth century: https://t.co/fr2RNDA8RC

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

#OTD 1805 Byron takes up residence at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he will famously keep a bear. Because College rules forbade dogs, but said nothing of bears….

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

#OTD 1819 Shelley writes the Ode to the West Wind

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”

https://t.co/JT9rdPHhCs

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

#OTD 1811 Shelley writes to his father 'You have treated me ill, vilely...When I was expelled for atheism you wished I had been killed in Spain.…If you will not hear my name I will pronounce it. Bysshe, Bysshe, Bysshe" 1/2

[UoCRomantics @UoCRomantics]

Happy 250th birthday, Coleridge!

[Friends of Coleridge @FriendsofSTC]

The memorial statue of Samuel Taylor Coleridge will be unveiled on 21st October, 2022 – his 250th birthday anniversary. The unveiling will take place at St Mary’s Church in Ottery, the home of his birth. Everyone is welcome to attend the actual unveiling at the church (11.00am).

[Keats-Shelley House @Keats_Shelley]

'I do not think that any…voice has the…power of awakening melancholy in me as Albe's [Byron's]…his voice…is engraved on my memory with…sounds and objects from which it can never disunite itself.'
Mary Shelley's journal entry #otd in 1822 makes us wonder about Byron's voice.

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

Today's picture: Portrait of Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1818 https://t.co/TuEqnnJB8t #RomanticsPics

[Madeline Potter @madeline_cct]

#FaustianFriday Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, was reportedly taught how to read by her father William Godwin by helping her trace out the letters on her mother Mary Wollstonecraft’s grave in the St Pancras Old Church Gardens.

[The Anne Lister Society @AnneListerSoc]

🎉📚🎩🪶Great news from @wyorksarchives & the #annelistercodebreakers! Another diary transcription now posted: BRAVA on this massive achievement! 👏👏WYAS’s award-winning curation of #AnneLister’s *emerging masterpiece of English literature* is truly making history. #TellHerStory

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that Autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The River in Autumn (1912) 🎨 Gustave Loiseau

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

#OTD 1814 Byron writes "I am about to be married, & am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness"

[Friends of Coleridge @FriendsofSTC]

In a letter to John Thelwall #OTD 1797 (postmark October 16), Coleridge writes that ‘I have neither money or influence, and I suppose that at last I must become a Unitarian minister, as a less evil than starvation. For I get nothing by literature...’

[UoCRomantics @UoCRomantics]

Oh, Byron 🙄

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

#OTD 1816 At the Ambrosian library, Milan, Byron steals a lock of Lucretia Borgia's hair

#TheRapeoftheLock

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

#ATT 1818 Keats writes "I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death"