Just won this in an online auction: A beautiul 1896 facsimile of Richard Wagner’s own handwritten libretto for "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg". Very pleased with it!
"Abroad, and above all in France, most biographies and estimates of Byron's character, through a union of superficiality and want of research, are based on hostile English books."
Teresa Guiccioli
A superb talk this evening on the significance of acts of walking in Jane Austen’s novels by our PhD student @NadaSaadaoui and a wonderful opportunity to celebrate Nada’s successful viva yesterday🥳 A very special way to bring this year’s Cultural Landscapes series to a close📚🍃
A celebratory end to this year's Cultural Landscapes series: the speaker, @NadaSaadaoui, passed her PhD viva y'day. She's the first grad from the @CumbriaEnglish MA in 'Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District' to complete a PhD. Congrats Dr Saadaoui! @DrPennyBradshaw
Thinking about a new career direction or undertaking PG study in the field of literature & cultural studies this September? Find out more about our MA Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District at our Ambleside campus Open Day on Sat 4th July: https://t.co/JAwEnUrpvR
“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolised.”
Happy birthday to Thomas Hardy, was born #otd 1840 in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset 🎈
📷Thomas Hardy’s birthplace
Richard Wagner's Érard, Tribschen
This wonderfully soft, melancholically sweet instrument charmed me back to music once more. I called it the Swan that had come to lead poor Lohengrin home again! Thus I began the composition of the second act of Tristan.
Venice, 6 October 1858
OTD in 1850, Tennyson's monumental poem In Memoriam A.H.H. was published. It was not just an elegy, but an examination of many things in life including science and faith. It contains the now-famous phrase "Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all."
Join us tomorrow evening in Ambleside (Tue 2 June) for the final event in our Cultural Landscapes series for this academic year. This free illustrated talk will discuss Jane Austen and Romantic Pedestrianism. See link below for further details and to book a place 🍃📚
This summer we are joining forces with social and cultural historian Sarah Tobias to honour our national drink.
It's going to be fun!
TEA LEAF TO TEA BAG
Sat 13th June, 10:30am - 3:30pm,
Tickets cost £25 plus booking fee
https://t.co/RGC7Gfm6wA
According to Nancy Mitford the only book her father ever read was White Fang. He enjoyed it so much he never wanted to read another.
https://t.co/cUi2uc0yJ5
The painting inspired by Keats’s lines is by Henry Meynell Rheam (1859–1920). I wrote a little about how “La Belle Dame sans Merci” inspired some of my own writing, including its themes of the femme fatale (Byronic heroine) and ideas of Gothic Faerie. I also wrote quite a bit about “Ill met by moonlight”: Gothic encounters with enchantment and the Faerie realms in literature and culture, a brilliant conference organized by the Open Graves, Open Minds Project (@OGOMProject) with the University of Hertfordshire. https://t.co/wQtDUwJmUo
"New Georgians ... will certainly not be an ecclesiastical movement or, worse, a church party. In the famous words of Michael Oakeshott, 'My theme is not a creed or a doctrine, but a disposition'. To be New Georgian is to inhabit a sensibility, a temperament, a disposition."