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  1. Today in Romantic-period poetry: death of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) and Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873).

    Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
    romanticperiodpoetry.org/

    #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD

  2. Today in Romantic-period poetry: date of death of Ann Yearsley (1753-1806) and Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862).

    Poems appear in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
    romanticperiodpoetry.org/

    #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD

  3. Thrilled to announce the completion of phase II of the #ElegyInTranslation-project: 55 early #19thC #translations of Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country-Churchyard" in Armenian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Welsh:

    thomasgray.org/texts/poems/ele

    #ThomasGrayArchive #c18th #digitalhumanities #ThomasGray

  4. #WaterfallWednesday
    "In the deep gorge below the Falls, the current, contracted into one-fourth its space, is borne in violent eddies and whirlpools along its inclined bed toward Lake Ontario."
    Niagara Falls illustration from America Illustrated, Edited by J. David Williams, profusely illustrated with gorgeous engravings like this by an #UncreditedArtist
    archive.org/details/americaill
    #19thC #Engraving #Illustration #VintageGraphics
    #PublicDomain