Lady Hamilton as the Persian Sibyl #artbots #vigéelebrun

Robert Burns died #otd 1796. Today we launch the 22nd run of the free online Burns course The Centre for Robert Burns Studies 107 learners have joined, another global cohort Looking forward to engaging with them! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✍️ futurelearn.com/courses/robert…

Call for papers: Hegel & Schelling on the Problem of Beginning. Leuven, 21-22 Nov 2025. Abstracts deadline: 25 July 2025. Several confirmed speakers. philevents.org/event/show/138…

"Byron’s afterlife presence is particularly reflected in the work of nineteenth-century women writers: Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot, who remodelled the Byronic hero to satisfy the expectations of the Victorian reading public." Andrzej Diniejko

Jacques Lacan, Seminar I, Freud’s Papers on Technique, 1953 - 1954

Money and American Literature by Paul Crosthwaite Provides the first comprehensive survey of money's crucial role in five centuries of American literary history. 📘 cup.org/4l9Y8l3 #amlit

Excited to announce that my upcoming monograph, William Blake's Mysticism: The Legacy of Prophetic Women (new title, same book), now has an official page & web presence on Palgrave's website 💫  and a publication date, February 2026! link.springer.com/book/978303203…

‘Coleridge in The Ancient Mariner tells a story that relates itself clearly to a major Romantic archetype, the Wanderer, the man with the mark of Cain, or the mocker of Christ, who must expiate in a perpetual cycle of guilt and suffering…’ — Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company

Georg Trakl, 'Winter Evening' This was one of Martin Heidegger's favourite poems. He offered a profoundly deep and beautiful reading of it in his essay 'Language.'

still notably goated

Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Widow Bird Sate Mourning" #poetry

Re-mapping the Brontes' a one day conference in Bradford on Sat 6 September, with keynote speaker Corinne Fowler Details and booking information here: bronte.org.uk/events/re-mapp…

The Cambridge History of the Gothic is an absolute must for those interested in the ‘origins, efflorescence and proliferation of the Gothic imagination, from its earliest manifestations in European history through to the present day.’

John Keats, "Bright Star" #poetry #sonnet

In 1858, August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing independently discovered the concept of a one-sided surface—what we now call the Möbius strip. A little-known fact is that neither realized immediately that they had stumbled upon the same geometric oddity. Their

Shelley’s heart (or possibly his liver?) was discovered in Mary Shelley’s traveling-desk after her death, wrapped in silk between the pages of the Pisa edition of Adonais (1821), Percy Bysshe Shelley’s elegy on the death of John Keats. More about it here: gothickeatspress.com/shelley/gothic…

If you'd like to know more about women's satire in the 18th century...

William Wordsworth, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" #sonnet #poetry

The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus or The Alchemist in Search of the Philosophers Stone #artbots #wright

“The idea of the unifying unity of the human condition has always had on me the effect of a scandalous lie.” Jacques Lacan, Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever