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  1. Narrative Poems: ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ by Robert Burns & ‘Peter Grimes’ by George Crabbe

    In this extract from the LRB Podcast, Seamus Perry, Mark Ford & Andrew O’Hagan discuss the moral & stylistic turns of ‘Tam o’ Shanter’, its influence on Wordsworth & Coleridge, & what it owes to the Augustan perfectionism of Pope. They also examine a much darker example of Romantic narrative poetry: George Crabbe’s ‘Peter Grimes’

    lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #Romanticism

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. In Romantic-period literary history: death of Antoni Malczewski (1793-1826) and Alfred de Musset (1810-1857).

    Poems appear in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
    romanticperiodpoetry.org/

    #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD

  5. John Galt’s fictional works – poised between Enlightenment and Romanticism – are sharp political satires & fascinating chronicles of Scottish life. Our INTERNATIONAL COMPANION to Galt is available in print, or online via Project MUSE

    4/6

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #satire #politics #politicalfiction #18thcentury #19thcentury #enlightenment #romanticism #JohnGalt

  6. “Between Whigs and Tories I can make no distinction,—a Tory is but a Whig in office, and a Whig but a Tory in opposition”

    —John Galt, THE MEMBER (1832). Described as “the first political novel tout court”, it’s available as an ebook from @canongatebooks

    3/6

    canongate.co.uk/books/228-the-

    #Scottish #literature #satire #politics #politicalfiction #18thcentury #19thcentury #enlightenment #romanticism #JohnGalt

  7. “I was in love with the book. In pure, ignorant defiance of the decree of the Iowa Writing School that controls almost all modern fiction, Galt tells without showing.”

    —Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s 1821 novel ANNALS OF THE PARISH

    2/6

    publicbooks.org/b-sides-john-g

    #Scottish #literature #satire #politics #politicalfiction #18thcentury #19thcentury #enlightenment #romanticism #JohnGalt #Ursulakleguin

  8. “I was in love with the book. In pure, ignorant defiance of the decree of the Iowa Writing School that controls almost all modern fiction, Galt tells without showing.”

    —Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s 1821 novel ANNALS OF THE PARISH

    2/6

    publicbooks.org/b-sides-john-g

    #Scottish #literature #satire #politics #politicalfiction #18thcentury #19thcentury #enlightenment #romanticism #JohnGalt #Ursulakleguin

  9. “I was in love with the book. In pure, ignorant defiance of the decree of the Iowa Writing School that controls almost all modern fiction, Galt tells without showing.”

    —Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s 1821 novel ANNALS OF THE PARISH

    2/6

    publicbooks.org/b-sides-john-g

    #Scottish #literature #satire #politics #politicalfiction #18thcentury #19thcentury #enlightenment #romanticism #JohnGalt #Ursulakleguin

  10. “I was in love with the book. In pure, ignorant defiance of the decree of the Iowa Writing School that controls almost all modern fiction, Galt tells without showing.”

    —Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s 1821 novel ANNALS OF THE PARISH

    2/6

    publicbooks.org/b-sides-john-g

    #Scottish #literature #satire #politics #politicalfiction #18thcentury #19thcentury #enlightenment #romanticism #JohnGalt #Ursulakleguin

  11. “I was in love with the book. In pure, ignorant defiance of the decree of the Iowa Writing School that controls almost all modern fiction, Galt tells without showing.”

    —Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s 1821 novel ANNALS OF THE PARISH

    2/6

    publicbooks.org/b-sides-john-g

    #Scottish #literature #satire #politics #politicalfiction #18thcentury #19thcentury #enlightenment #romanticism #JohnGalt #Ursulakleguin

  12. “[Galt’s] realism is hard-headed, his compassion is tough-minded, his humour contagious but tainted with the sense that chaos and catastrophe are never far away”

    —Prof Alan Riach on the fiction of John Galt (1779–1839), born #OTD, 2 May – a 🎂🧵

    1/6

    thenational.scot/news/15683482

    #Scottish #literature #satire #politics #politicalfiction #18thcentury #19thcentury #enlightenment #romanticism #JohnGalt

  13. Upon the Absent Beloved

    I bless the hour, though it wounded me,
    when first my eyes were taught to look and grieve,
    and every joy I thought my heart could weave
    was turned to golden thread of misery.

    For Beauty came, and with her majesty
    made captive all I had believed was free;
    yet in that chain my soul learned how to see
    the heaven hidden in captivity.

    O gentle light, too distant to be mine,
    you burn within me like a sacred flame;
    I flee from you, yet follow all the same.

    Thus love makes bitter water into wine:
    I die of longing, yet I live by this—
    the wound itself has taught my heart its bliss.

    Author’s Note: My attempts at a poem in the style of Petrarch

    #burningHeart #celestialLight #classicalImagery #devotionalArt #inkIllustration #laurelWreath #longing #lovePoem #parchmentAesthetic #Petrarch #Petrarchan #Poetry #renaissanceInspiration #Romanticism #sacredHeart #starSymbolism #symbolicArt #symbolicIllustration #unrequitedLove #woundedHeart
  14. Today in Romantic-period poetry: date of death of Ion Heliade Rădulescu (1802-1872) and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).

    Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
    romanticperiodpoetry.org/

    #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD

  15. “William Shakespeare was a powerful influence on Robert Burns… I count as many as 16 references to Shakespeare’s plays in his poetry”

    —Prof Gerard Carruthers on the links & commonalities between Robert Burns & William Shakespeare

    theconversation.com/haggis-nee

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #drama #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay

  16. “No Englishman of Byron’s age, character, and history would have had patience for long theological discussions on the way to fight for Greece; but the daft Gordon blood and the Aberdonian school-days kept their influence to the end.”

    —Robert Louis Stevenson, MEMORIES & PORTRAITS (1887)

    3/4

    museabrugge.be/en/collection/w

    #Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #RobertLouisStevenson #19rhcentury

  17. “No Englishman of Byron’s age, character, and history would have had patience for long theological discussions on the way to fight for Greece; but the daft Gordon blood and the Aberdonian school-days kept their influence to the end.”

    —Robert Louis Stevenson, MEMORIES & PORTRAITS (1887)

    3/4

    museabrugge.be/en/collection/w

    #Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #RobertLouisStevenson #19rhcentury

  18. “No Englishman of Byron’s age, character, and history would have had patience for long theological discussions on the way to fight for Greece; but the daft Gordon blood and the Aberdonian school-days kept their influence to the end.”

    —Robert Louis Stevenson, MEMORIES & PORTRAITS (1887)

    3/4

    museabrugge.be/en/collection/w

    #Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #RobertLouisStevenson #19rhcentury

  19. “No Englishman of Byron’s age, character, and history would have had patience for long theological discussions on the way to fight for Greece; but the daft Gordon blood and the Aberdonian school-days kept their influence to the end.”

    —Robert Louis Stevenson, MEMORIES & PORTRAITS (1887)

    3/4

    museabrugge.be/en/collection/w

    #Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #RobertLouisStevenson #19rhcentury

  20. “No Englishman of Byron’s age, character, and history would have had patience for long theological discussions on the way to fight for Greece; but the daft Gordon blood and the Aberdonian school-days kept their influence to the end.”

    —Robert Louis Stevenson, MEMORIES & PORTRAITS (1887)

    3/4

    museabrugge.be/en/collection/w

    #Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #RobertLouisStevenson #19rhcentury

  21. Quintessential Romantic Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died #OTD, 19 April, 1824

    Byron included this #poem in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…

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    poetryfoundation.org/poems/438

    #Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury

  22. Quintessential Romantic Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died #OTD, 19 April, 1824

    Byron included this #poem in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…

    1/4

    poetryfoundation.org/poems/438

    #Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury

  23. Quintessential Romantic Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died #OTD, 19 April, 1824

    Byron included this #poem in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…

    1/4

    poetryfoundation.org/poems/438

    #Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury