Percy Shelley's heart (or possibly his liver) was indeed found in Mary Shelley's travel writing-desk after her death in 1851, wrapped in silk between the pages of an edition of 'Adonais', Percy's elegy on the death of John Keats. More here https://t.co/UUV5xVdmhi
New Cambridge Element, The Wise Club by Charles Bradford Bow, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
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#cambridgeelements#literature
Novalis's ‘Heinrich von Ofterdingen' by Owen Ware
A highly detailed and original interpretation of Novalis's unfinished masterpiece, featuring a new annotated translation.
https://t.co/p4ae2WzxGW
#europeanlit
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s edited by Emma Mason
A collaborative study revealing the 1810s as characterised not merely by cultural transition, but by unforeseen change, hope, and renewal.
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#18thcentury
In Polidori's The Vampyre of 1819 we see the #vampire as rake or libertine. No longer a revenant of Eastern Europe, this predatory creature is an English Lord with irresistible powers of seduction. The story of this Romantic Vampire is out in paperback in June #FolkloreSunday
"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humour, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence, and nothing too much."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Explore our digital exhibition 'Edinburgh: A City of Contrasts' exploringcontrasting representations of #Edinburgh in our Fine Art collection.
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View of Edinburgh from the Calton Hill, Patrick Gibson (1782–1829)
I’m remembering John Martin today. Instead of the usual “Witch of the Alps” inspired by Byron’s poem Manfred (1817), I’m thinking of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826). Although it was inspired by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell’s poem of 1823, here is Martin’s painting The Last Man (1849).
"Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still."
(Sir Walter Scott)
May your evening be stupendous this #NewYear. #HappyNewYear
Image Scott Monument Museum #Edinburgh
✒️ Call for papers! The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association seeks proposals for a session on Romantic disenchantment at MLA 2027. Learn more: https://t.co/ghB6eAoNvt
"I have no appetites, passions, or vanities which lead to expense. In books only am I intemperate - they have been both bane and blessing to me."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1803
The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive knowledge base is accessible via #SPARQL, enabling semantic queries and data integration. This infrastructure underpins the interactive "Networks"-view on the website and is the basis for further computational analysis and application development.