Prof @EdinburghUni / Romanticism and Philosophy / Waste / I am already eating from the trash can all the time; the name of this trash can is ideology.
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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
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May 14
The latest additions to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive include poems by Ann Radcliffe and William Lisle Bowles, and facsimiles of works by William Cowper and Oliver Goldsmith.
eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/
#C18th #poetry #DigitalHumanities #ECPA #18thCentury #poems
ALT Facsimile of the title page of Cowper's The Task (1785)
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May 9
"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
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Explore our digital exhibition 'Edinburgh: A City of Contrasts' exploringcontrasting representations of #Edinburgh in our Fine Art collection.
artuk.org/discover/curations…
View of Edinburgh from the Calton Hill, Patrick Gibson (1782–1829)
ALT View of the city of Edinburgh, showing the castle on the hill , with the town spreading out below it towards the sea, under a cloudy sky.
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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).
17 Feb 2024
Romanticist painter John Martin died #OTD 1854. The first is a scene from Lord Byron’s poem Manfred when the “Witch of the Alps rises beneath the arch of the sunbow.” The ghostly apparition next to him is what she demands as payment for relieving his suicidal despair: his soul.
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31 Dec 2025
"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
ALT Statue of Sir Walter Scott inside Scott Monument. Stained Glass window behind
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2 Dec 2025
Please join us for this upcoming event! Book your free place here
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Still time to book for our 12th December symposium @EdinburghUni organised by @LoisMBurke & @_SELCIE_🦉 funded by the British Academy! #scottishlit #womenswriting #irishlit #childrensliterature
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24 Nov 2025
Turner’s sketchbook, the size of a small wallet, in the tremendous Turner Constable @tatebritain
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13 Nov 2025
✒️ Call for papers! The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association seeks proposals for a session on Romantic disenchantment at MLA 2027. Learn more: ow.ly/KQXC50XqCUY
ALT The Wordsworth Circle
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12 Nov 2025
"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
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6 Nov 2025
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.
ALT Screenshot of the Networks view in the RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive.
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5 Nov 2025
The next free event in our Cultural Landscapes series will be a talk on Tuesday 2nd December (6.30pm start) by @DaleGothic96 on 'Gothic Architecture and Gothic Fiction in the Long Eighteenth Century'. See here for further details and to book a place: tinyurl.com/4mmyfhbw
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20 Oct 2025
'A life-sized sculpture of Jane Austen has been unveiled in the grounds of Winchester Cathedral to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the writer's birth.' bbc.com/news/articles/c8740g…
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22 Oct 2025
🚨 The 2025–26 Keats-Shelley & Young Romantics Prizes are OPEN! ✍️
📚 Poetry & Essay
👥 Ages 16–18 (Young Romantics) & all ages (Keats-Shelley)
🌍 Theme: Dystopia or Utopia
Enter now ➡️ bit.ly/3KdIurO
#KeatsShelleyPrizes #WritingContest #Poetry #Essay
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16 Oct 2025
GOTHIC ROMANTICISM This week on Gothic Romanticism we explore William Blake: there's a fairy funeral, a ghost of a flea & visitations by angels. Chimney sweepers locked up in coffins of black are set free by an angel with a bright key as songs of innocence give way to experience
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14 Oct 2025
A wee reminder that I'll be talking about Shelley's waste at @LPRomantic this Friday.
23 Sep 2025
Looking forward to talking about Percy Shelley's emetic aesthetics @LPRomantic in a few weeks. Better get started. #romanticism #Shelley
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Out now in paperback - Byron: A Life in Ten Letters!
A Byron biography like no other, this book tells the remarkable life story of the celebrated Romantic poet through ten of his best, most resonant letters.
Buy your copy now: cup.org/4mbjhft
#Byron #EnglishLiterature
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21 Sep 2025
virtual reality in 1830
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