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I spoke with @[email protected] CEO Patrick Spero on the Useful Knowledge podcast! We discussed monster-thinking and first contact in #VastEarlyAmerica and in outer space.

🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵

I spoke with @[email protected] CEO Patrick Spero on the Useful Knowledge podcast! We discussed monster-thinking and first contact in #VastEarlyAmerica and in outer space.

🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵

I spoke with @[email protected] CEO Patrick Spero on the Useful Knowledge podcast! We discussed monster-thinking and first contact in #VastEarlyAmerica and in outer space.

🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵

I spoke with @[email protected] CEO Patrick Spero on the Useful Knowledge podcast! We discussed monster-thinking and first contact in #VastEarlyAmerica and in outer space.

🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵

I spoke with @[email protected] CEO Patrick Spero on the Useful Knowledge podcast! We discussed monster-thinking and first contact in #VastEarlyAmerica and in outer space.

🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵

The South Asian edition of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out from @[email protected]! It’s the history of the category of the human since antiquity, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making.
🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵

From 2024: Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman examines the representation of English & Scottish national stereotypes in the novels of Scottish authors Susan Ferrier, Mary Brunton, & Elizabeth Hamilton

From the Reading Scotland project at the University of Mainz

10/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_OKYRVugZs

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #MaryBrunton #ElizabethHamilton

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 is, then, a novel concerned with questions of morality & education, but also national identity, the differences between Scottish & English cultures…It is also very funny”

—Books & Borrowing, 1750–1830 on Susan Ferrier’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦

9/10

https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/forgotten-best-sellers-susan-ferriers-the-inheritance-1824/

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #nationalidentity #Scottishidentity #Britishidentity #humour

“Miss Ferrier avowedly made thumb-nail sketches,—as is proved in one of the few surviving letters to or from her,—out of which grew the merciless caricatures that created her fame”

—an 1893 article in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 contrasting Sussan Ferrier & Jane Austen

8/10

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1893/06/miss-austen-and-miss-ferrier/529989/

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #JaneAusten

“…the foibles of the Scottish characters are usually much less detestable than those of the English…”

Untrammelled by Theory: Susan Ferrier’s Polyphonic Vision of Scotland & the Union in 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦
—Benjamine Toussaint, SLR 8/1, 2016
Available via Open Access on Project MUSE

7/10

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/619276

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #NationalTale

A 1996 BBC radio adaptation of 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 by Patricia Hannah was repeated in 2025 on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Sadly it’s not currently available but it might come back again…

6/10

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nn0f

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #adaptation #radiodrama

A 1996 BBC radio adaptation of 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 by Patricia Hannah was repeated in 2025 on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Sadly it’s not currently available but it might come back again…

6/10

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nn0f

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #adaptation #radiodrama

A 1996 BBC radio adaptation of 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 by Patricia Hannah was repeated in 2025 on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Sadly it’s not currently available but it might come back again…

6/10

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nn0f

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #adaptation #radiodrama

A 1996 BBC radio adaptation of 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 by Patricia Hannah was repeated in 2025 on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Sadly it’s not currently available but it might come back again…

6/10

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nn0f

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #adaptation #radiodrama

A 1996 BBC radio adaptation of 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 by Patricia Hannah was repeated in 2025 on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Sadly it’s not currently available but it might come back again…

6/10

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nn0f

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #adaptation #radiodrama

Infinite Women: Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

In this episode of the Infinite Woman podcast, Dr Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman & Kate Ferrier discuss Susan Ferrier’s life & work

5/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbHjU6Jisrk

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #podcast

We republished Susan Ferrier’s 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 in 2020, using the text of the acid-sharp 1819 2nd edition rather than the sentimentalised Victorian 4th edition of 1841. You can read the first chapter online here:

4/10

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/63106258/marriage-a-novel-by-susan-ferrier-vol-1-ch-1

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #humour #romanticism

“Nothing could be so delightful as the style of living in Scotland; the people were so frank & gay, & the manners so easy & engaging…”

Ferrier’s first novel, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 (1818), looks at what happens when romantic notions of the Highlands meet cold, damp reality…

3/10

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/marriage/

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #humour #romanticism

“It is a truth universally acknowledged…”

Susan Ferrier’s 2nd novel 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 (1824) starts with a nod & wink to Jane Austen’s 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 (1813). In 1818, Blackwood’s paid £150 for 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦; it is a testament to Ferrier’s popularity that they paid £1000 for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦

2/10

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #JaneAusten

Susan Ferrier (1782–1854) was born #OTD, 7 Sept. Her 3 novels – 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, & 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘺 – are vivid & humorous accounts of Scottish society. Often compared to her contemporary Jane Austen, Ferrier’s satires are much more vicious…

A 🎂🧵

1/10

https://www.nls.uk/collections/stories/literature-and-poetry/susan-ferrier-and-her-contemporaries/

#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #JaneAusten #humour #satire

The latest additions to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive include poems by Thomas Paine, Joel Barlow, Philip Morin Freneau, John Trumbull, Lucy Terry, and Phillis Wheatley:

https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/

#C18th #poetry #Revolution250 #DigitalHumanities #ECPA #18thCentury #poems

Kennt ihr das? Ihr findet eine Zeitungsdebatte über spezielle Imkereitechniken aus den 1770ern und müsst jetzt den Stein des Anstoßes in einer englischen Zeitung der 1760er finden? 🕳

#Imkerei #18thCentury #FrüheNeuzeit #Bienen #Zeitung

Syracuse University: NEH Grant-Funded Project Will Digitize Pre-Revolutionary War Papers. “Two Syracuse University faculty members have received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to digitize portions of the Jeffrey Amherst Papers—a rare, 54-volume trove of 18th-century documents charting British, American colonial and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy relations in the […]

Henry Raeburn’s portrait of Robert Burns had been missing for more than 200 years until it was discovered during a house clearance & sold at auction in 2025. It is on display in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway until 1 November – free, no booking required

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/burns-portrait-returns-to-poets-birthplace

#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #romanticism #portrait #painting #visualart #18thcentury #19thcentury #Raeburn #HenryRaeburn

Out of the Shadows

On BBC Sounds: singer & storyteller Karine Polwart tells the story of how a crater on Mercury came to be named after the 18th-century Scottish poet & songwriter Carolina Oliphant

3/3

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qdgg

#Scottish #literature #song #folksong #18thcentury #19thcentury #womenwriters #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #astronomy #romanticism #Mercury

O rowan tree, o rowan tree,
Thou’lt aye be dear tae me,
Entwin’d thou art wi mony ties
O hame and infancy…

Hear Hannah Rarity & Innes White sing Carolina Oliphant’s “The Rowan Tree”

2/3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMrldnhS_MY

#Scottish #literature #song #folksong #18thcentury #19thcentury #womenwriters #Scots #Scotslanguage

The Laird o’ Cockpen, he’s proud an’ he’s great,
His mind is ta’en up wi’ the things o’ the State…

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) was born #OTD, 16 Aug. Oliphant wrote over 100 popular songs to traditional Scottish tunes. Although she shunned publicity & never acknowledged her authorship, along with Robert Burns she is one of the most significant figures in Scottish folksong

1/3

#Scottish #literature #song #folksong #18thcentury #19thcentury #womenwriters #Scots #Scotslanguage

Dick Gaughan sings Robert Burns’s “Song, Composed in August” (“Now Westlin Winds”), live at Harvard, 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vZ7oYCx6tBw

#Scottish #literature #poetry #song #folksong #RobertBurns #18thcentury #nature #environment

Now westlin winds, and slaught’ring guns
Bring Autumn’s pleasant weather;
And the moorcock springs, on whirring wings,
Amang the blooming heather…

—Robert Burns, “Song, Composed in August”
First published in POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT (Kilmarnock, 1786)

Pages digitised by the National Library of Scotland

https://digital.nls.uk/poems-chiefly-in-the-scottish-dialect/archive/74464614#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=230&xywh=-1574%2C0%2C5647%2C4185

#Scottish #literature #poetry #song #folksong #RobertBurns #18thcentury #nature #environment

The Three Robins
9 September, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed.

A talk on “The Three Robins: R. Burns, R. Fergusson and R. Louis Stevenson” presented by Prof David Purdie, MD. Medical Professor Emeritus & Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-talk-prof-david-purdie-md-on-the-three-robins-tickets-1990168132458

#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #RobertFergusson #RobertLouisStevenson #poetry #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury

Listen to Ossian’s version of Robert Burns’ “Corn Rigs”, from their 1981 album SEAL SONG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU6f21Bdsbg&list=PLF04F88F9D6E44609

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #song #18thcentury #folksong #RobertBurns #Lammas #LammasDay #romanticism #Scots #Scotslanguage

It was upon a Lammas night,
When corn rigs are bonie,
Beneath the moon’s unclouded light,
I held awa to Annie…

—Robert Burns, “Corn Rigs”
pages from Robert Burns: Selected Poems & Songs (OUP, 2013)

Today, 1 August, is Lammas Day

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/selected-poems-and-songs-9780199682324?cc=gb&lang=en&

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #song #18thcentury #folksong #RobertBurns #Lammas #LammasDay #romanticism #Scots #Scotslanguage

Roseberry’s Summerhouse: What Was It For? Nobody Quite Knows

A while has passed since I last posted a photo of Roseberry’s summerhouse.
I call it a summerhouse, though nobody agrees on what this odd building was for. The National Park have stuck a plaque on it calling it a shooting box. Fine, except a sketch by George Cruit puts ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/07/03/roseberrys-summerhouse-what-was-it-for-nobody-quite-knows/

#NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #18thcentury #history

The audiobook of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is $0.99 on Amazon.com / 99p on Amazon.co.uk. Links in thread, plus links for 30% off from @[email protected] (valid for all books!).

Intro cliff-hanger in alt-text.

🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

St. Vincent de Paul

Author’s Note: This post contains mentions of slavery. If this triggers you, you may go to the next post. We understand.

Vincent de Paul (April 24, 1581-September 27, 1660; 79 years old at the time of his passing) was a French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor & is best known for founding the Congregation of the Mission & Daughters of Charity.

After being ordained a priest in 1600, de Paul was kidnapped/adult-napped (he was 19 years old at the time) & enslaved for 2 years in Tunis (This was a semi-autonomous territory of the Ottoman Empire; it’s in modern-day Tunisia). He returned to Europe after escaping in 1607 (26 years old at the time).

He then served as a parish priest & in the French royal court before dedicating himself to the poor, founding the Ladies of Charity in 1617 (36 years old at the time). In 1622, de Paul was appointed as chaplain to the galley slaves in Paris.

De Paul founded the Congregation of the Mission (a.k.a. the Vincentians or Lazarists) in 1625 (44 years old). Having vowed poverty, chastity, obedience, & stability, they were to devote themselves entirely to people in smaller towns/villages.

He was a pioneer in seminary education & also founded the Daughters of Charity in 1633 (52 years old). He’s the namesake of the Vincentian Family of organizations, which includes the religious order he founded, among others.

He was renowned for his compassion, humility, & generosity. He was canonized in 1737. He was venerated as a saint in both the Catholic Church & the Anglican Communion.

Vincent de Paul was born on April 24, 1581, in the village of Pouy, in the province of Guyenne & Gascony, Kingdom of France, to peasant farmers. His dad was Jean de Paul & his mom was Bertrande de Moras. He wrote the name on 1 word, Depaul, but none of his correspondents did so.

He had 3 brothers & 2 sisters. He was the 3rd child & demonstrated a talent for literacy early in life. He worked as a child, herding his family’s livestock. At age 15, his dad sent him to a seminary. He paid for this by selling the family’s oxen.

For 3 years, he studied at a college in Dax, Aquitaine. It adjoined a monastery of the Friars Minor (a.k.a. the Franciscans), where he resided. In 1597, he enrolled in theology at the University of Toulouse. The atmosphere at the university was rough. Fights broke out between various factions of students, which escalated into armed battles. An official was murdered by 2 students. Vincent continued his studies, financing them by tutoring others.

Vincent was ordained subdeacon & deacon at Tarbes Cathedral in the French Great South-West, near Périgueux. This was against the regulations established by the Council of Trent, which required a minimum of 24 years old for ordination. So when he was appointed parish priest in Tilh. An appeal against the appointment was made to the Roman Curia.

Rather than respond to a lawsuit in which he would probably not have prevailed, he resigned from the position & continued his studies. On October 12, 1604, he received his Bachelor of Theology from the University of Toulouse. Later, he received a Licentiate in Canon Law from the University of Paris.

Vincent wrote a letter in July 1607 & a postscript in February 1608 that described his experience of abduction & slavery. In 1605, he sailed from Marseille on his way back from Castres, where he had gone to sell property he’d inherited from a wealthy patron in Toulouse. He was taken captive by Barbary pirates, who took him to Tunis. Vincent was auctioned off as a slave, & spent 2 years in bondage.

His 1st “master” was a fisherman. But this wasn’t the life for Vincent because he got seasick. He soon was sold. His next “master” was a spagyric physician (this is a modern medical movement based on the theories & therapies of Paracelsus), alchemist, & inventor. Vincent became fascinated by his art & was taught how to prepare the attention of men who summoned him to Istanbul.

During the passage, the old man died & Vincent was sold once again. His new “master” was a former Catholic priest & Franciscan from Nice, Guillaume Gautier. Gautier had converted to Islam to gain his freedom from slavery & was living in the mountains with 3 wives.

The 2nd wife, a Muslim by birth, was drawn to & visited Vincent in the fields to question him about his faith. She became convinced that his faith was true & admonished her husband for renouncing his Christianity. Her husband became remorseful & decided to escape back to France with his slave.

They had to wait 10 months. But finally they secretly boarded a small boat & crossed the Mediterranean, landing in Aigues-Mortes on June 29, 1607. After returning to France, Vincent went to Rome. There he continued his studies until 1609, when he was sent back to France on a mission to King Henry IV.

Once in France, he made the acquaintance of Pierre de Berulle, whom he took as his spiritual advisor. Andre Duval, of the Sorbonne, introduced him to Canfield’s Rule of Perfection.

In 1612, he was sent as a parish priest to the Church of Saint-Medard in Clichy. In less than a year, Berulle recalled him to Paris to serve as a chaplain & tutor to the Gondi family. The Gondi family was a prominent Florentine banking family and a financial partner of the Medici family.

Although Vincent had initially begun his priesthood with the intention of securing a life of leisure for himself, he underwent a change of heart after hearing the confession of a dying peasant. It was the Countess de Gondi who persuaded her husband to endow & support a group of able & zealous missionaries who would work among poor tenant farmers & country people in general.

On May 23, 1643, after King Louis XIII had passed away, Queen Anne had her husband’s will annulled by the Parlement de Paul (a judicial body composed mostly of nobles & high clergymen), thereby making her the sole Regent. Anne appointed Vincent de Paul as her spiritual advisor.

He helped her deal with religious policy & the Jansenist issue. Jansenism is/was a 17th-18th century Christian theological movement within the Catholic Church, rooted in the writings of Dutch bishop Cornelius Jansen.

Vincent is the patron of all works of charity. Several organizations inspired by his work & teaching & which claim Vincent as their founder or patron saint are grouped in a loose federation known as the Vincentian Family.

Vincent died in Paris on September 27, 1660. Vincent’s body was exhumed in 1712, 53 years after his death. The written account of an eyewitness states that “the eyes & nose alone showed some decay.” However, when the body was exhumed again during the canonization in 1737, it was found to have decomposed due to an underground flood.

According to the custom of the time, his bones were encased in a waxen figure, which is displayed in a glass reliquary in the chapel of the mother house of the Vincentian fathers in Paris (the St. Vincent de Paul Chapel). His heart is still incorrupt & is displayed separately in a reliquary in the chapel of the mother house of the Daughters of Charity.

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Very excited to launch London Theatre, 1660–1800, an analysis and visualisation framework built on the London Stage Database:

https://londontheatre.prisms.digital/

Features a map of venues, a theatrical calendar, detailed repertoire, cast and role lists, financial information courtesy of Theatronomics, network visualisations, and more.

#c18th #theatrestudies #digitalhumanities #theatre #18thCentury #performingarts

Kirby Bank — A Hill With a Past

Bluebells pour down the sun-baked flank of Kirby Bank above the plain of Cleveland. Gorse burns yellow across the slopes. Below, the white walls of the Pybus Scout Centre gleam in the spring light. Beyond the green patchwork of fields, Roseberry Topping rises on the far hor ...

https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/01/kirby-bank-a-hill-with-a-past/

#Kirby #KirkbyinCleveland #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #18thcentury #alum #history #medieval #monastic

Grant me, indulgent Heaven, that I may live,
To see the miscreants feel the pains they give;
Deal Freedom’s sacred treasures free as air,
Till Slave and Despot be but things that were.

—Robert Burns, “Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanac”

#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #poem #poetry #18thcentury #liberty #justice #freedom

A curious coincidence? A certain sympathy for the Satanic? Or a testament to the enduring influence of the JUSTIFIED SINNER? Of eight devilish novels chosen by Luke Dumas for the Literary Hub, three – including Hogg’s masterpiece – are by Scottish authors…
😈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

10/10

https://lithub.com/the-darkness-within-8-novels-about-the-devil/

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury #devil #satan #satanic

The #treeofheaven #Ailanthus #altissima is a #tree originally native to Asia. It arrived in #Europe as ornamental plant in the #18thcentury and increasingly #naturalized due to its high #adaptability to difficult #ecologicalconditions and its efficient #dispersal. #Globalwarming is further facilitating its current spread. J. Soler & J. Izquierdo (2024) highlight the modern situation of this #invasivespecies.

© #StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025

Ref
https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13070931

#Photos
© S.F. Wirth

“It is apparent from Burns’s correspondence, his poetry, and even from his First Commonplace Book that the bard was plagued by ill health on several occasions throughout his short life”

—From the University of Glasgow’s “Editing Robert Burns” blog

4/4

https://burnsc21.glasgow.ac.uk/robert-burns-and-death/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism #epitaph

“This Sonnet I have written in a strange mood, half asleep. I know not how it is, the Clouds, the sky, the Houses, all seem anti Grecian & anti Charlemagnish—”

Fame & Judgement: Keats at Burns’s Tomb (1818)

3/4

https://keatslettersproject.com/correspondence/fame-and-judgement-keats-at-burnss-tomb/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertBurns #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #epitaph #Keats #JohnKeats

At the Grave of Burns, 1803
Seven Years After His Death
William Wordsworth

I shiver, Spirit fierce and bold,
At thought of what I now behold:
As vapours breathed from dungeons cold,
Strike pleasure dead,
So sadness comes from out the mould
Where Burns is laid…

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https://www.poeticous.com/william-wordsworth/ii-at-the-grave-of-burns-1803-seven-years-after-his-death

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Is there a whim-inspired fool,
Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule,
Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool,
Let him draw near…

Robert Burns (1759–96) died #OTD, 21 July, aged 37. “A Bard’s Epitaph” is the final poem in the 1786 Kilmarnock Edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

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1772: A Path, A Stone, A Hanging

The so-called “Miners’ Trod”, with Cold Moor rising beyond it, cuts a broad, unsightly scar along the hillside courtesy of the forestry workers. The path’s name comes from the nineteenth-century jet-miners, though it is unlikely they were its first users. That large boulder to the left bears t ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/06/14/1772-a-path-a-stone-a-hanging/

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