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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 the life of John Keats and considered his family, influencers and mentors. In this follow-up post we now...
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Wordsworth and Wales
by Frances Thomas When we think about the landscapes that influenced Wordsworth and his poetry, Wales doesn’t usually spring to mind. But he made many visits to Wales over his lifetime, and its...
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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 ‘Who was who’ in the life of John Keats, and considered his family, influencers and mentors. In this...
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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 horror show? Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein in the centre of Bath is all of...
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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 father’s bookshelf. It was the 1905 edition of Shelley’s Complete Works, edited by Thomas...
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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 another biography of Keats?” This was the question posed at the start of today’s talk by...
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“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 be an apothecary. In the early 19th century, many boys left school at fourteen or...
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A 21st-century Détournement of Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth rewritten by...
by Jeffrey C. Robinson “The ‘experiment,’ we think, has failed…” (Robert Southey on Lyrical Ballads) Reading some of the first negative responses to Lyrical Ballads after its publication in 1798, is...
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Wordsworth for Children
by Daniel Brocklehurst Have you ever had the feeling that there is something slightly infantile about many of William Wordsworth’s poems? Sometimes descriptions of kittens and falling leaves,...
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Shelley, Amelia Curran, and the portrait of Beatrice Cenci
by Ian Reynolds The Irish painter Amelia Curran (1775-1847) is best known for the painting of Percy Bysshe Shelley which now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Percy Bysshe Shelley, by...
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‘Schemes of Retirement’: William Wordsworth and Building in the Lakes
by Charity Ford I had been off an airplane for four days and an intern at Wordsworth Grasmere for only two when Jeff Cowton, Principal Curator and Head of Learning at the Wordsworth Trust, showed me a...
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The Apothecary of the Revelations, or The Devil with Too Many Tales (sic)
by Gareth Evans The satirical print grew in popularity as a profitable sideline for 18th-century London print shops. Generally, the plates were bought from an engraver or artist then printed up to be...
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The Time Lab: Volume 1
The Time Lab: VOL I A dispatch from the first few weeks of a new exhibition exploring memory and time in Wordsworth's The Prelude. By Guest Curator Stacey Joy Rossouw. Visit the Main Exhibition Page...
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The Time Lab
Wordsworth Grasmere unveils new interactive exhibition Visitors to a Cumbrian attraction and former home of William Wordsworth can now become part of the museum’s history and legacy by offering up...
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Minecraft meets Wordsworth
Minecraft meets Wordsworth Experience for free this August! In what is possibly the most imaginative cultural crossovers yet, the globally popular game Minecraft, has been reimagined into a unique way...
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Wordsworth Grasmere lends treasured manuscript to museums in Asia William Wordsworth’s poetry is wowing crowds across Asia on its travels as Wordsworth Grasmere loans one of its most cherished...
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Wander into Spring Wordsworth Grasmere launches spring Daffodil Trail Spring has arrived in spectacular fashion at Wordsworth Grasmere, as the daffodils that inspired one of the nation’s most famous...
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Rydal Mount’s future secured
Landmark acquisition 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...
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“no children were ever more delighted” What do you buy a 256-year-old poet for his birthday? The 7th of April is upon us already, marking William Wordsworth’s 256th birthday. We were touched by all...
View ArticleWordsworth Trust says farewell to its Chair and welcomes his successor
Wordsworth Trust says farewell to its Chair and welcomes his successor Professor Sir Drummond Bone, the long-standing Chairman of the Wordsworth Trust, has announced he will step down after nine years...
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