Dorothy WordsworthWilliam WordsworthWordsworth and Romanticism Wordsworth for Children by Daniel Brocklehurst Have you ever had the feeling that there is something slightly infantile about many of William…Lynn Shepherd30th November 2023
Contemporary creative responsesThe work of the Wordsworth Trust A 21st-century Détournement of Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth rewritten by homeless Britain by Jeffrey C. Robinson "The ‘experiment,’ we think, has failed...” (Robert Southey on Lyrical Ballads) Reading some of the first…Lynn Shepherd25th August 2023
John KeatsWordsworth and Romanticism “I shall try what I can do in the Apothecary line”: John Keats’s medical years by Mellany Ambrose John Keats spent five years, a fifth of his tragically short life, studying and training to…Lynn Shepherd21st June 2023
John KeatsWordsworth and Romanticism Sharp practice? New light on Keats’s final journey Review of a talk by Alessandro Gallenzi at the Oxford Literary Festival by Lynn Shepherd “Why would we need…Lynn Shepherd31st March 2023
Percy Bysshe ShelleyWordsworth and Romanticism A life in Shelley by Nick Smith Fifty years ago, in January 1971, a small boy picked out a hefty, gold-embossed volume from his…Lynn Shepherd24th February 2023
Mary ShelleyWordsworth and Romanticism Welcome to the House of Frankenstein Andrew Weltch visits the new 'Mary Shelley's House of Frankenstein' in Bath Is it a museum? A pop-art exhibition? A…Lynn Shepherd1st February 2023
John KeatsWordsworth and Romanticism The Life of John Keats: Who Was Who? Part III by Ian Reynolds This is the third in a series of linked posts My first and second posts looked at…Lynn Shepherd11th January 2023
Dorothy WordsworthWilliam WordsworthWordsworth and Romanticism Wordsworth and Wales by Frances Thomas When we think about the landscapes that influenced Wordsworth and his poetry, Wales doesn’t usually spring to…Lynn Shepherd1st December 2022
John KeatsWordsworth and Romanticism The Life of John Keats: Who Was Who? Part II The second in a series of linked posts by Ian Reynolds My first post looked at ‘Who was who’ in…Lynn Shepherd21st November 2022
John KeatsWordsworth and Romanticism The Eve of St Agnes: ’Practising Poetry and Pharmacy’ by Gareth Evans The old English apprentice system could be said to have had trouble built into it. Taking fifteen-year-olds…Lynn Shepherd8th November 2022