Autumn in the woods 🍁🍂

Prof. Dr. Evrim Doğan Adanur moderatörlüğünde, Dr. Trevor Hope'un katılımıyla gerçekleşecek "Bound to be Free: Knots, Textiles and the Regulation of Drives in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" başlıklı etkinliğe davetlisiniz! ⚔️ ⏰ 23 Ekim 2024, 14.00 📍 B Blok - 315

Hej Stockholm...

Byron conference in Ravenna, 15-16 November. I'll be in Uppsala. Otherwise I'd be in Ravenna.

You are welcome to attend the 17th International IDEA Conference: Studies in English, which will be held at Fırat University (Türkiye). Abstract submissions are open. idea17.firat.edu.tr

Hello again Zagreb. Lovely to be back. Lectures on Coleridge and Keats for me today.

Hello again Uppsala...

Lund Christmas Trees 🎄

What will become of English studies? And what future does the study of Romanticism have? Come an present a paper at the 2025 National Forum: "The future in and of English Studies". Currently accepting paper proposals for the panel "Romantic Futures" konferens.ht.lu.se/the-13th-natio…

Windy on the Øresund today.

The Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants by Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson Elucidates the long history of plants in literature across global traditions, examining both literary form and cultural context. 📚 cup.org/3DyFWBu #europeanlit

Happy #InternationalPolarBearDay! Read Michael Engelhard's essay "Darwin's Polar Bear" looking at the often overlooked role they played in the development of evolutionary theory: buff.ly/2HY8STq #polarbears (Pictured: a circa 1808 etching by S. C. Miger.)

West coast of Ireland, east coast of Denmark, anemones. All changed, changed utterly...

Early morning ferry crossing. Bound for Lund and three days of the SWESSE national forum at English Studies. Can only be great with great colleagues like Barbara Barrow Monika Class Satu Manninen Dr Jorunn Joiner

'me sweetest flowers delayed not long... but among/ The thickest billows of the living storm/ I plunged, and bared my bosom to the clime/ Of that cold light, whose airs, too soon deform' {PB Shelley).

From 1772 to 1783 Mary Delany made 985 intricate & botanically accurate floral mosaics out of paper. They were the precursors of the collage style of #art. In a letter to her niece, Mary said she had invented a new way of imitating flowers. #MythologyMonday

Cheese shopping for Easter. Wondering how much will survive until Easter.

A minor botanical - poetical mystery, still unresolved: why did Percy Shelley say he always thought of the 'fair Celandine/ As of a flower aery blue' in his 'Verses written on receiving a Celandine in a letter from England'?

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Out next week: the Shelleys’ History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (1817) for the first time in paperback with notes. Also includes an introduction, appendices, maps… just received my editor copies! Ed. by CjDuffy & myself for Oxford Classics. 📚