On This Day in 1820: Keats publishes Lamia in his last volume
Today on the BARS Blog we present a post on John Keats and his poem Lamia by Mariam Wassif. The ‘On This Day’ Series celebrates the 200th anniversary of literary… Read more »
Category: On This Day
‘On This Day’ BARS Blog Series: Call for Contributors
Want to write for the BARS Blog? Get in touch with a proposal for our series ‘On This Day’. This series is about Romantic bicentenaries, and has been running since July… Read more »
On This Day in 1820: Byron completes and dispatches “Don Juan” III and IV (Part II)
In this series, we celebrate the 200th anniversary of literary and historical events of the Romantic period. This is the second of a two-part OTD blog by Dr Emily Paterson-Morgan,… Read more »
On This Day in 1820: Byron completes and dispatches “Don Juan” III and IV (Part I)
In this series, we celebrate the 200th anniversary of literary and historical events of the Romantic period. Today, on the 19th of February 2020, we celebrate the bicentenary of Byron… Read more »
The Meeting: Reading and Writing through John Clare
As part of an Arts Council England- & John Clare Society-funded outreach and inclusion project, Simon Kövesi has edited a short collection of readings of John Clare poems and prose… Read more »
Keats’s Bees in the Ode ‘To Autumn’ – Written On This Day in 1819
In this series, we celebrate the 200th anniversary of literary and historical events of the Romantic period. Today, on 19th September 2019, we celebrate the bicentenary of Keats’s ode ‘To… Read more »
On this Day in 1819: Mary Shelley writes of her son’s illness
In the summer of 1814, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin embarked upon a whirlwind romance that would shape her life forever. Her relationship with Percy Shelley spanned approximately 9 years until his… Read more »
On This Day in 1818: Percy Bysshe Shelley writes to Thomas Love Peacock
In this series, we celebrate the 200th anniversary of literary and historical events of the Romantic period. Today, on 25 July 2018, we present a discussion of Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey by… Read more »
On This Day in 1818: 17 July, Percy Bysshe Shelley translates Plato’s Symposium
We continue to celebrate the 200th anniversary of literary and historical events in the Romantic period with the BARS ‘On This Day’ blog series. Following a post by Alan Weinberg in… Read more »
On This Day in 1818: Shelley approaches Italy
Prof Alan Weinberg (University of South Africa) has produced this post to mark 200 years since P B Shelley’s journey to Italy – a crucial turning point in his life,… Read more »