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#OTD 1816 Mary Shelley's journal reads "Write my story". This is the first written reference to #Frankenstein. But was Mary Shelley's story of the birth of Frankenstein a 'story' itself? https://t.co/qoIBmwVlOL
New post today: @pumps1000 explores the creation and inspiration of Keats's most mysterious poem, 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'
https://t.co/0Quc5hhR5q
picture @bristolmuseum
#OTD 1819 Shelley writes "‘Those writings which I have hitherto published, have been little else than visions which impersonate my own apprehensions of the beautiful and the just. I can also perceive in them the literary defects incidental to youth and impatience..."
#OTD 1819 Mary Shelley writes "After dinner walk to the Coliseum"
#OTD 1809 Byron and his travelling companion Hobhouse land at Lisbon at the beginning of their epic European tour.
What beauties doth Lisboa first unfold!
Her image floating on that noble tide,
Which poets vainly pave with sands of gold
#OTD 1818 Mary Shelley writes in her journal: "Read 23rd Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S[helley] finishes the Clouds [of Aristophanes] - Reads Hume's England aloud in the evening - take a long and delightful walk"
#OnThisDay 1815 Keats registers as a trainee surgeon-apothecary at Guy's Hospital. What effect did Keats' time at Guy's have on his life and work? @keatsbabe blogs for us /2 https://t.co/ZqwCWcCIeQ
Today's picture: hair keepsakes collected by Lady Shelley and displayed in her 'sanctum' https://t.co/7g4wrIJlEa #RomanticsPics
New post: 'Most musical, most melancholy': @PopCultureWar on Nightingales in Milton, Coleridge and Keats https://t.co/Um6lF6ZwDY
New post: 'Most musical, most melancholy': @PopCultureWar on Nightingales in Milton, Coleridge and Keats https://t.co/Um6lF6ZwDY