The Byron-Shelley Circle

Co-operative tweets on English Romanticism. #Byron #Shelley #Keats #Coleridge #Wordsworth #Blake #DeQuincey #Romantics #Romanticism #Gothic

[Kurwenal @dagodubnos]

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!

[Jed Pumblechook @JedPumblechook]

"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

[Cumbria Uni English @CumbriaEnglish]

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📚🍃

[Sue Wilkinson @sue_wilkinson]

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

[Cumbria Uni English @CumbriaEnglish]

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

[Patrick’s Rare Books @patricksrarebks]

Bell’s Surgery, 1801. You should own this.

[Zara Handley @zarahandley]

“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

[England of Old @englandofold]

"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors." - Edmund Burke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Kurwenal @dagodubnos]

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

[Nick Holland @Nick_Holland_]

#otd 1851 Charlotte Bronte visited the Great Exhibition at the new Crystal Palace. She was blown away by the vast exhibition, and visited it twice.

[The Tennyson Society @TennysonSociety]

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."

[Cumbria Uni English @CumbriaEnglish]

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 🍃📚

[Nick Louras @Nick_Louras]

My book The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood won the 2026 IndieReader Discovery Award for History.

[Nick Louras @Nick_Louras]

Paying respects to A.H. in this Semiquincentennial year.

[The Regency Town House @rth_brighton]

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

[England of Old @englandofold]

“Happy is England! I could be content / To see no other verdure than its own.” - John Keats 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Nick Louras @Nick_Louras]

221b. 🇬🇧

[Nick Louras @Nick_Louras]

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

[Clay Franklin Johnson @ClayFJohnson]

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

[laudablePractice @cath_cov]

"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."