New publication: David Worrall combines neuroscience and literary criticism to explore William Blake’s visions.

William Blake's Visions: Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia is now available from Palgrave.

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#OTD 1807 Wordsworth writes

'every great and original writer... must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.”

Poetry lovers don't miss Jan Noble's mini verse-drama 'Byon 200', on Thursday 23 May at 5 pm, here at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome.

To book your place please write an email to [email protected].

For more info click here: bit.ly/4bFrK5a

Incredibly excited to share the gorgeous cover for my book on C18 / Romantic transnational women writers Martha and Katherine Wilmot

Out in October Boydell & Brewer

Thanks WomensHistNetworkWM for funding never-before-seen colour images of the sisters for cover/back

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Join us at York Mansion House for the launch of our new & accessible critical digital edition of Eliza Haywood's satirical 18th-century periodical, The Parrot. The edition has been edited by an awesome team of students from Literature at YSJU & @YSJpublishing. #YorkGerogianFest

If you are interested in Radcliffe's experiences in the Lakes as an 18thC woman traveller & can't make it to see the film on Sunday, you can read the account of her travels, edited & introduced by DrPennyBradshaw in this new edition pub. by HobnobPress tinyurl.com/bdhuk8rj

Happy to see British Romanticism and Denmark now out in paperback from Edinburgh University Press

Its 1787, and you can pick up a bottle of artificial 'spaw water' in the town of Leith, made from a mix of water, chalk, magnesia and salt

The short film commissioned by Wordsworth Grasmere about Ann Radcliffe’s 1794 ascent of Skiddaw on horseback & featuring our own Dr Penny Bradshaw will be screened this Sunday Keswick Mountain Festival keswickmountainfestival.co.uk/product/wordsw… University of Cumbria Centre for National Parks & Protected Areas

Join us for our next Tree Talk with Wordsworth Grasmere on 31 May 🌳 Katie Holten | Language of Trees | Code Red ❤️ and Dr John Miller (@shefenglish) will be speaking about Trees, Communication & Connection 🍃

More info & free booking here: wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/tr… #LoveATreeDay

Vesuvius from Posillipo wikiart.org/en/joseph-wrig…

We are pleased to announce that registration for the Shelley Conference is OPEN! theshelleyconference.com/registration/

Join us at Keats House Museum 28-29 June for 'Posthumous Poems', Posthumous Collaborations. Keynote Dr Ross Wilson, 'What is a Posthumous Poem?' & Plenary Panel, 'Editing the Dead'

The project 'Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies' Robert Fergusson (1750-74) is organising a symposium based on Fergusson's textual afterlives, on 6 September 2024 at University of Glasgow. Deadline for proposals: 1 July 2024. 📣 robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/events/symposi…

The Scottish Novel in 1824 | 1 July 2024 | The University of Edinburgh The symposium, with a keynote lecture from Prof. Ian Duncan, marks the bicentenary of the publication of Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Scott’s Redgauntlet. Register at: ed.ac.uk/literatures-la…

A heartfelt thanks to everyone who came to my inaugural lecture in April. A recording of my talk, 'Ex Nihilo: Romanticism, Creation, and the Invention of 'Literature'' is now available from the University of Edinburgh website:
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In May of 1825, at the age of 17, Ira Aldridge first appeared on the London stage in a low profile production of Othello.

He was the first Black actor to play leading Shakespearian roles on the stage in Britain and across Europe #AgeOfRevSchools

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Here I am talking about My Life with Walter Scott.
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NEXT FRIDAY!! International seminar. Brecht de Groote (Ghent) on Pseudotranslation and Mediation in British Romanticism. Response: Laurent Folliot (Sorbonne). Chair: Luisa Cale (Birkbeck). 17 May 2024 at 17.30, Senate House, London. Free admission. Wine reception. ALL WELCOME.

A new Five Questions interview up on the BARS Blog: Matthew Ward on Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling (Oxford University Press): bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5249.

📚 #Onthisday in 1814, Mansfield Park was first advertised in The Star newspaper. Jane Austen wrote Mansfield Park at home here in Chawton, between 1811 and 1813 and it was her third published novel.

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