#c18th — Public Fediverse posts
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Excited to announce the availability of an interactive map of Thomas Gray's correspondence, which joins the existing correspondence network in the #ThomasGrayArchive's Letters section:
https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/letters/map.shtml
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On this date 269 years ago, Odes by Mr. Gray (The Progress of Poesy and The Bard) published by Horace Walpole at his new Strawberry Hill press in 1757.
Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
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On this date 269 years ago, Odes by Mr. Gray (The Progress of Poesy and The Bard) published by Horace Walpole at his new Strawberry Hill press in 1757.
Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/1757
#c18th #poetry #DH #ThomasGray #Odes #OTD -
Today marks the 255th anniversary of the death of Thomas Gray (1716-1771)—poet, letter-writer, scholar, polymath.
Featured in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
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On this date 249 years ago, Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) born this day.
Poetry available in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
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On this date 317 years ago, James Harris (1709-1780) born this day.
Poems are included in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
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On this date 317 years ago, James Harris (1709-1780) born this day.
Poems are included in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00003.shtml
#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD -
On this date 362 years ago, birth of Matthew Prior (1664-1721).
Poems are included in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00314.shtml -
On this date 362 years ago, birth of Matthew Prior (1664-1721).
Poems are included in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00314.shtml
#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD -
On this date 352 years ago, Isaac Watts (1674-1748) born this day.
Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
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Today in eighteenth-century poetry: Henrietta St. John Knight, Lady Luxborough (1699-1756) and Ann Yearsley (née Cromartie) (1753-1806) born this day.
Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
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On this day (303 years ago), Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) born this day.
Poetry available in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
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On this day, Ann Radcliffe (née Ward) (1764-1823) and Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818)’s birth date.
Poems appear in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
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4th of July orations (1777-1800) in #PRISMS:
https://www.prisms.digital/editions/?q=subjects:%22Fourth%20of%20July%224th of July orations database (1777-1876):
https://www.julyfourthorations.org/#18thC #Revolution250 #IndependenceDay #FourthOfJuly #Evans #July4th #FoundingFathers #DigitalHumanities #c18th
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4th of July orations (1777-1800) in #PRISMS:
www.prisms.digital/editions/?q=...
4th of July orations database (1777-1876):
www.julyfourthorations.org
#18thC #Revolution250 #IndependenceDay #FourthOfJuly #Evans #July4th #FoundingFathers #DigitalHumanities #c18th -
OTD (343 years ago): date of birth of Edward Young (1683-1765).
Poetry available in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
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Very pleased to announce the addition of the 592 surviving letters in Thomas Gray’s correspondence to the #ThomasGrayArchive integrated finding aid to Thomas Gray manuscripts:
https://www.thomasgray.org/resources/findaid.shtml
#c18th #correspondence #letters #findingaid #ThomasGray #DigitalHumanities #18thC #EAD
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Delighted to announce the Summer 2026 update to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive, with poems by Thomas Paine and five of his American contemporaries and a new interactive metres database:
www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/about/#latest
#C18th #poetry #Revolution250 #DigitalHumanities #ECPA #metre -
Delighted to announce the Summer 2026 update to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive, with poems by Thomas Paine and five of his American contemporaries and a new interactive metres database:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/about/#latest
#C18th #poetry #Revolution250 #18thC #DigitalHumanities #ECPA #metre #poems
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On this day (279 years ago), John O'Keeffe (1747-1833) born this day.
Poetry available in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00331.shtml -
On this day (279 years ago), John O'Keeffe (1747-1833) born this day.
Poetry available in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00331.shtml
#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD -
On this day (283 years ago), birth of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (née Aikin) (1743-1825).
Poems are included in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
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OTD: Rev. John Wesley (1703-1791), Henry Taylor (1711-1785), and Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) born this day.
Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
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OTD: Rev. John Wesley (1703-1791), Henry Taylor (1711-1785), and Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) born this day.
Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/
#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD -
Spent some happy hours correcting and polishing https://threethousanddishes.prisms.digital/ 🧑🍳
All thanks to _The King's Dinner_ by Rachel Rich, Sarah Fox, Adam Crymble & Lisa Smith. They wrote the book, I just tidied my site to do it more justice. Do read theirs: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kings-dinner/
#c18th #foodhistory #Georgians #18thC
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OTD (276 years ago): Gray completed the Elegy at Stoke Poges and sent it to Horace Walpole who circulated it in MS among his friends and acquaintances.
Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/resources/findaid/poems/work/elcc -
This day 269 years ago: Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806) born this day.
Poetry available in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
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This day 269 years ago: Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806) born this day. Poetry available in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive: https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00326.shtml #c18th #poetry #DH #OTD
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This day 341 years ago: birth of John Gay (1685-1732).
Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00303.shtml -
This day 341 years ago: birth of John Gay (1685-1732). Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive: https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00303.shtml #c18th #poetry #DH #OTD