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  1. OTD, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854) and Dimitrie Bolintineanu (1819-1872) died this day.

    Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
    romanticperiodpoetry.org/

    #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD

  2. 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

    nts.org.uk/stories/burns-portr

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

  3. 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

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    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qdgg

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

  4. @litstudies

    Did Walter Scott Invent Scotland?
    Dr Juliet Shields’ 2017 Gresham College Fulbright lecture

    Why is it Scott’s version, rather than any of the many other 19th-century literary representations of Scotland, that has endured in the popular imagination?

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    youtube.com/watch?v=vxBpDfV6SHE

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #Scotland ##19thcentury #Victorian #novel #romanticism

  5. “Scott is the most filmic of writers… He may be considered difficult to read today, long-winded & meandering by modern standards, but his narratives still come alive when the characters move dramatically in a visual world”

    —Walter Scott & Cinema

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    thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/wa

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #romanticism #novel #cinema #film #cinemahistory

  6. @litstudies

    “No Romanticist or Victorianist can excuse an ignorance of Scott. Back then, everybody read him. He was the first global superstar of the novel… Everybody read Scott, no exceptions.”

    —Prof Adam Roberts on Walter Scott

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    amechanicalart.blogspot.com/20

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #romanticism #novel

  7. “The influence of Walter Scott can be felt in every province of the literature of his age.”
    —Pushkin

    Walter Scott was born #OTD, 15 Aug 1771. He was & is one of the most significant figures in world literature

    @litstudies

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    thebottleimp.org.uk/issues/iss

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #romanticism #novel

  8. Mary Shelley’s Gothic Dundee
    26 August, online
    SWI members free; non-members £6.13

    Mary Shelley was sent to Dundee as a teenager, & it was here, so she claimed in the 1831 edition of FRANKENSTEIN, that her eerie imagination was first stirred. What was so “gothic” about Dundee in the 1810s? And how did it inspire her? Prof Daniel Cook investigates.

    @litstudies

    eventbrite.co.uk/e/swi-expert-

    #Scottish #literature #Scotland #Dundee #romanticism #MaryShelley #gothic #horror #19thcentury #Frankenstein

  9. In Romantic-period literary history: Du Nguyễn (1765-1820) and Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868) died this day.

    Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
    romanticperiodpoetry.org/

    #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD

  10. "View from the Artist's Window," Martinus Rørbye, c. 1825.

    Rørbye (1803-48) was one of the central artists of the Danish Golden Age of painting, in the first half of the 19th century, and this particular image is regarded as one of his best.

    Painted when he was in his early 20s, we have a view from his parents' window at a navy yard with ships. It's loaded with symbols...the bird in the cage hanging at the window is him, about to break free and travel; the plants (including a pink geranium) show growth and development, and the blank book is waiting to be filled with sketches.

    Rørbye was well-traveled for the era; he visited Norway and Sweden, and journeyed as far as Rome, Athens, and Constantinople. He even painted in the town of Skagen, a full fifty years before it became a popular artists' colony and home of the Skagen school. So the bird in the cage is a transition from his parents' home to exploring the wide world on one of those ships.

    Happy Flower Friday!

    From the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.

    #Art #MartinusRørbye #DanishGoldenAge #Romanticism #FlowerFriday

  11. 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

    eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-t

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

  12. I've been getting into Russian #Decembrists lately and that made me curious about the notion of military school uprisings. Similar like it happened in Poland in #Romanticism under Russian rule, what Polish bard #JuliuszSłowacki documented in his drama "Kordian". There are some great books about Polish uprisings under Russian rule, like, I think, "The great century of Poland" by Polish literary scholar Alina Witkowska. I want to read more of Polish Romantics.

    #Bookstodon
    #History

  13. 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

    global.oup.com/academic/produc

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

  14. Copies of the first edition of Robert Burns’s POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT are 3 times rarer than the Shakespeare First Folio. Patrick Scott & Allan Young are tracking the histories of surviving Kilmarnock Editions

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/ki

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #RobertBurns #romanticism #BookHistory

  15. Burns – in serious financial, & legal, difficulties, mostly of his own making – was on his way to Greenock to take passage to Jamaica, where he had been offered the job of book-keeper on a slave plantation, when news reached him that his book had been enthusiastically received. He decided to stay in Scotland, & attempt a poetical career.

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #RobertBurns #romanticism #BookHistory