News: Rydal Mount’s future secured
The future of Rydal Mount, the final home of world-renowned poet William Wordsworth, has been secured thanks to a landmark acquisition by the Wordsworth Trust, working in partnership with The… Read more »
Category: Romanticism Now
Historical Romance, Austen, and Romanticism: Bridgerton Season Four Review by Emma Butler
As an avid fan of historical/Regency romance and period dramas more broadly, as well as a scholar of the long nineteenth century, I enjoy the world that Shonda Rhimes’ adaptation… Read more »
Catherine Redford on poetry and the new collection The Way the Water Held Me
When my wife died at the age of 33, Mary Shelley was a natural companion in my journey through grief. Widowed two hundred years before me when Percy Shelley drowned… Read more »
Romantic Adaptations: Situating del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025)
In this post, we welcome Dr Jodie Marley back to the BARS blog to discuss a handful of approaches to Guillermo del Toro’s recent adaptation of Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac,… Read more »
Romanticism Now: 1816: The Year Without a Summer, a new student musical
The ‘Romanticism Now’ series on the BARS Blog discusses where Romanticism pops up in contemporary culture. In this instalment, Chloe Wilcox (BARS Communications Fellow) looks at 1816: The Year Without… Read more »
Romanticism Now: The Lesbian Sublime in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) and Ammonite (2020)
This week we have a new blog contribution from Eli S, discussing two films that feature the “lesbian sublime.” Eli S is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature in Germany…. Read more »
“Writing like Wordsworth”: A Brief Primer
We are thrilled to welcome to the blog Dr Adam Neikirk, one of the BARS/Wordsworth Grasmere Early Career Fellows. His blog post below discusses his ongoing project “Writing like Wordsworth”,… Read more »
On This Day: 19th April 1824 – Lord Byron dies in Missolonghi, Greece
Byron died far from home, in Missolonghi, Greece, where he played his role (most often as mediator or financier) in the Greek struggle for independence. He did not die in… Read more »
Keats Euphoria: Punk Folk Album Inspired by Keats’s Life and Poems
On February 23, Tom Anderson is releasing his album “Keats Euphoria” with eleven punk-folk songs inspired by Keats life and poems. It’s a homage to Keats, with some direct lifts… Read more »
On This Day in 1824: The African Theatre and Ira Aldridge
On January 19, 1824, New York City’s African Theatre staged its last known production: a one-man character sketch show performed by its principal actor James Hewlett.[1] The theatre had opened… Read more »