On This Day in 1820: What Did Byron Really Look Like?
The BARS ‘On This Day’ Series celebrates the 200th anniversary of literary and historical events of the Romantic period. Want to contribute a future post? Get in touch. Today we are… Read more »
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On This Day in 1820: The Visionary Heads and William Blake’s attitude towards Death (Part II)
Yesterday, we marked 200 years since William Blake drew ‘Pindar and Lais the Courtesan’ on 18 September 1820. Today, Dr Sibylle Erle (Bishop Grosseteste University) continues her reflection on Blake’s… Read more »
On This Day in 1820: William Blake draws Pindar the Greek Poet and Lais the Courtesan (Visionary Heads) for John Varley (Part I)
2020 presents yet another exciting year for Romantic bicentenaries. We’ve already shared ‘On This Day’ posts about Lord Byron, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Today we are delighted to… Read more »
On This Day in 1820: P. B. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound is Published
The BARS ‘On This Day’ Blog series celebrates the 200th anniversary of literary and historical events of the Romantic period. Want to contribute a future post? Get in touch. Today, Amanda… Read more »
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 »
‘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 »
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 »