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A forgotten female Romantic poet?: Introducing Anna Laetitia Barbauld Wordsworth and Romanticism

A forgotten female Romantic poet?: Introducing Anna Laetitia Barbauld

by Mara Barbuni Anna Laetitia Barbauld (née Aikin) poet, essayist, abolitionist, literary critic, teacher and educationist, lived an age of…
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Romantic readings: 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' by John Keats John KeatsWordsworth and Romanticism

Romantic readings: 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' by John Keats

by Lynn Roberts Humans want to know things. They’re as full of ’satiable curtiosity as the Elephant’s Child, and when…
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Poets and places: Dove Cottage Dorothy WordsworthWilliam WordsworthWordsworth and Romanticism

Poets and places: Dove Cottage

by Stephen Hebron To find out more about visiting Dove Cottage, please click here. ‘A tender and sure immortality’, wrote…
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'A filthy process in which I was engaged': Revising Frankenstein Mary ShelleyWordsworth and Romanticism

'A filthy process in which I was engaged': Revising Frankenstein

by Alison Kinney Terror, nausea, and the solitary slog of patching together cold, dead bodies in the workshop:  Mary Shelley’s…
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Book review: The Vampyre Family: Passion, Envy and The Curse of Byron by Andrew McConnell Stott Book reviewsLord ByronPercy Bysshe ShelleyWordsworth and Romanticism

Book review: The Vampyre Family: Passion, Envy and The Curse of Byron by Andrew McConnell Stott

By Pam Norfolk The famous meeting of literary minds at the Villa Diodati in the stormy summer of 1816 has…
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A new species of poetry: The making of Lyrical Ballads Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWilliam WordsworthWordsworth and Romanticism

A new species of poetry: The making of Lyrical Ballads

by Jonathan Kerr The Lyrical Ballads (1798) – Wordsworth and Coleridge’s first major literary undertaking and a pioneering work of…
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Wordsworth and the French Revolution William WordsworthWordsworth and Romanticism

Wordsworth and the French Revolution

by Sinead Fitzgibbon On the right bank of the Seine, just a stone’s throw away from the Palais Royal, the…
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'A Tassel to the Purse of Merit': Byron and literary failure Lord ByronWordsworth and Romanticism

'A Tassel to the Purse of Merit': Byron and literary failure

by Andrew Stott For those who crave celebrity, obscurity is the worst affront – a long stretch in the penal…
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The microscopic eye of John Clare John ClareWordsworth and Romanticism

The microscopic eye of John Clare

By Sue Edney John Clare liked to get his head down in the grass – ‘close to nature’ in every…
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‘Full fathom five the poet lies’: The death of Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyWordsworth and Romanticism

‘Full fathom five the poet lies’: The death of Percy Bysshe Shelley

by Lynn Shepherd Percy Bysshe Shelley died on 8th July 1822, at the age of 29, when his boat went…
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