The 2024 Shelley Conference at Keats House Museum is underway! Pick up flyers for the latest Longman Poems of Shelley (Routledge) and Percy Shelley for Our Times (Cambridge) at the registration desk 📚

It's Day 2 of the Shelley Conference! Don't forget to check out our special Shelley exhibition in Brown's Parlour at Keats House Museum today 📖

Thanks so much to all of our 2024 Shelley Conference delegates and key speakers for a convivial and inspiring two days at Keats House Museum, and to Prof. Mark Sandy for launching proceedings with our pre-conference lecture! We hope we've sparked future Shelleyan collaborations✨

Look out for us if you are coming to the Horsham Rotary UK Funday this Sunday in Horsham Park! We will be there with sculptor Vincent Gray. You can find us on Stand 1 with the Friends Of Horsham Park, learn more about our project and maybe win a prize on the tombola! See you there. 🎡🎠🎁

#OTD 1820 Shelley writes "It seems the destruction that is consuming me ... wrapt and infected everything connected with me"

"How soon those hours passed, and how slowly they return to pass so soon again, perhaps for ever, in which we have lived together so intimately, so happily! Adieu, my dearest friend!" Shelley to Jane Williams, July 1822

#OTD 1822 Shelley is drowned in a storm. It will be 10 days before his body is found wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2014/07/0…

Today's picture: on the anniversary of his death #OTD 1822, the grandiose monument to Shelley at University College, Oxford Here's @lynn_shepherd on Shelley at - and being expelled from - Oxford wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2022/10/0…

#OTD 1821, probable publication date in Pisa of Shelley's elegy on Keats's death, Adonais bit.ly/1yvmXM7

#OTD 1820 Shelley writes "I wonder why I write verses, for nobody reads them"

#OTD in 1816 Shelley started on "Mont Blanc". Where Power in likeness of the Arve comes down From the ice gulphs that gird his secret throne, Bursting through these dark mountains like the flame Of lightning through the tempest... theguardian.com/books/booksblo…

#OTD 1816 Shelley writes to Peacock "Pinnacles of snow, intolerably bright, part of the chain connected with Mont Blanc shone thro the clouds at intervals on high. I never knew I never imagined what mountains were before" 1/2

And here's Dr Anna Mercer following the Shelleys in Switzerland... wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2017/05/0… 2/2

#OTD 1816 Shelley inscribes himself as 'Atheist. Lover of Humanity. Democrat' in a hotel register at Chamonix. wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2016/07/2…

#OTD Happy birthday Percy Bysshe Shelley! Born 232 years ago today.

Today is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s birthday, one of the most brilliant poets of the Romantic age. Here is a collection of essays by Professor Michael Owen Jones, Dr Amanda Blake Davis (abdavis.bsky.social), Lynn Shepherd, The Romanticism blog, @NahokoM, Colin Silver, and Shelley Memorial Project. gothickeatspress.com/essays-to-hono…

Tickets are now on sale for our 3rd "A Celebration of Poetry" on Saturday 12th October at St Mary's Church Horsham. Join Louis de Bernieres, Emily Rose Smith, Barry Smith and Chris Hardy, + Sussex poets Liz Barnes, Ted Gooda and Si Zec. Deets & 🎟️below. eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-celebratio…

Don't miss our next event! We're back with another series of talks and events for our #Byron200 programme. On Thursday 12 September at 5 p.m. Prof. Roderick Beaton will talk about P.B. Shelley’s key role in Lord Byron’s fatal journey to Greece. To sign up: bit.ly/3zxsSu9

Today we are celebrating Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's birthday. She was born #otd in 1797.

📢 Exciting news for Romantic-era scholars! The Keats-Shelley Association of America is accepting applications for the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Research Grants. Read our new post for more details: k-saa.org/blog/call-for-…