Did you miss this weekend's excellent talk on Get out of Midsomer: Horror in Britain's Empire? Worry not! Here it is. youtu.be/AZx8e9qmllk

Shepherdess ~ a busy sheep day ..

Strasbourg Cathedral

Fixed-term, early career teaching fellowship in Romanticism up for grabs in my Department. Come to Edinburgh and work with lovely people. jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH593/ear….

Join us at our Ambleside campus tomorrow (Tue 3rd June) for this free talk by Dr Jessica Fay on 'Dorothy Wordsworth and the Poetry of the Seasons' 📚🍃 Details and booking link can be found below.

New in paperback! The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith | The first modern scholarly edition of the letters of Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), including extensive biographical and contextual material. | Save 20% with code THLOG25 📚 cup.org/4dWqpt9 #18thcentury

Big news! Award-winning Collective Architecture appointed to help Save the Home of Auld Lang Syne. The team is led by conservation architects and will focus on the buildings at risk. Thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland & South of Scotland Enterprise Read more here ellislandfarm.co.uk/collective-arc… #RobertBurns

Shepherdess ~ June ~ Blooming Marvelous 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

A passage from Scots The Mither Tongue from the period called The Rough Wooing when England violently attacked Scotland.This was the conclusion of the author of the Complaynt of Scotland. It still holds true today. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♥️

Happy birthday James Kelman! Born on 9th of June 1946, Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer & playwright. In his early twenties he began writing stories that were true to his own life & social-cultural experience. Author portraits for Lean Tales with Agnes Owens Archive

Lord Byron’s unfinished vampire story “Fragment of a Novel”, written in response to his own ghost story challenge the night prior at Villa Diodati, was dated and likely written #OTD 17 June 1816. Byron’s fragment, as well as Byron himself, influenced Dr. Polidori’s “The Vampyre”.

A (belated) shout out for Jonathan Sach's magisterial 2018 monograph on the concept of decline in Romanticism. Each chapter loaded with insights: on the temporal parallax of slow vs accelerated time, the aesthetics of ruin, Darwin and Romanticism, and much more.

Dr Polidori begins his ghost story today... then madness ensues after Lord Byron reads lines from Coleridge’s poem ‘Christabel’. Not only was Shelley ‘influenced’ by the poem, so was Edgar Allan Poe, and it may have had an influence on Le Fanu’s vampire novella Carmilla (1872).

I have made another little video of Early Gothic reading recommendations but this time they're (slightly) less well-known! youtu.be/ONuSvBFewpU?si…

"English literature’s last stand" Stefan Collini’s new book explores why such a prestigious academic discipline finds itself on the margins of modern society. newstatesman.com/culture/books/…

Fabulous visualization of rhymes in Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad! #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive #c18th #poetry #AlexanderPope #Homer

Stroll the same paths that once inspired Scotland’s national poet. Ellisland Farm lets you step into the story of Robert Burns — and stay just next door at Auld Acquaintance Cottage. #BurnsCountry #EllislandFarm #scotlandstartshere ellislandfarm.co.uk/visit/stay/

'… no poet ever expressed in sweeter, more heart-reaching, or more passionate verse, the gentler or more forcible emotions of the soul.' We want to share with you Mary Shelley's words about P.B. Shelley on the 203rd anniversary of his death.

If you're thinking about PG study in the fields of literary, heritage, environmental and cultural studies, why not find out more about our MA Literature, Romanticism & the Lake District at an online course talk by our programme leader on Wed 30 July at 6pm tinyurl.com/582yyvzw

In honour of Percy Bysshe Shelley, who died #OTD 8 July 1822, here is a collection of essays by Shelleyans and scholars including Professor Michael Owen Jones, Professor Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey, Dr Amanda Blake Davis, Lynn Shepherd, Colin Silver, and more. gothickeatspress.com/essays-to-hono…