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A blog from Wordsworth Grasmere exploring the Romantic poets, and the literature and culture of the period. Do get in touch if you'd like to contribute a post

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Today's picture: for #FrankensteinDay the first page of Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's hand
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#OTD 1819 Byron writes to his publisher "So you want me to undertake what you call a 'great work?' an Epic Poem, I suppose, or some such. I'll try no such thing; I hate tasks"
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#OTD 1813 Byron writes "I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone"
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Today's picture: for #InternationalWomensDay , a woman whose work changed the world. The first page of Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's hand
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Today's picture: for #FrankensteinDay the first page of Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's hand #RomanticsPics
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Today's picture: the engagement ring Keats gave to Fanny Brawne
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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable" Coleridge
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Today's picture: on the anniversary of his death, Keats's grave in Rome
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#OTD 1818 Mary Shelley writes "Pass along the banks of the Metaurus, which are exceedingly beautiful"
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#OTD 1819 Mary Shelley writes "I now begin a new year — may it be a happier one than the last unhappy one"
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Today's picture: for Mary Shelley's birthday, a locket holding her and Percy's hair
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Today's picture: Byron's name, scratched into the stone at the Temple of Poseidon in Sounio, Greece
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#OTD 1816 Polidori isn't having a very exciting Christmas….
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Today's picture: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein notebook
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#OTD 1827 Death of William Blake. "Just before he died his countenance became fair. His eyes brighten'd and he burst out singing of the things he saw in heaven" He is buried in Bunhill Fields Burial Grounds, London
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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable" Coleridge
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#OTD 1827 Death of William Blake. "Just before he died his countenance became fair. His eyes brighten'd and he burst out singing of the things he saw in heaven" He is buried in Bunhill Fields Burial Grounds, London
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#OTD 1813 Byron writes "I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone"
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#OTD 1813 Byron writes "I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone"
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Happy birthday William Wordsworth! 249 today!
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#OTD 1815, Birth of Ada, Byron's only legitimate child. Ada Lovelace will become a pioneer of computer programming. Byron said of her "I hope the Gods have made her anything save poetical- it is enough to have one such fool in a family". He got his wish...
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If Wordsworth ate cake... 😄 #NationalCakeDay
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Today's picture: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein notebook #RomanticsPics
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"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar" Shelley
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#OTD 1822 Shelley's body is dug up from where it has been buried in the sand for a month and burned on the beach. Afterwards Byron swims a mile and a half to his boat
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#OTD 1813 Byron writes "I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone"
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Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein in two notebooks. The first was probably purchased in Geneva, the second several months later in England. You can now read them online at the Shelley-Godwin archive
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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable" Coleridge
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#OTD 1817, Mary Shelley writes to Byron "Another incident has also occurred which will surprise you, perhaps but it allows me to sign myself - "
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Today's picture: for Mary Shelley's birthday, a locket holding her and Percy's hair #RomanticsPics
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#OTD 1815 Mary Godwin writes "Dreamt that my little baby came to life again; that it had only been cold, and that we rubbed it before the fire, and it lived. Awake and find no baby – I think about the little thing all day"
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#OTD 1818 Frankenstein is published. Percy Bysshe Shelley sends a copy to Walter Scott, with a note saying "The Author has requested me to send you, as a slight tribute of high admiration & respect, the accompanying volumes"
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Happy birthday William Wordsworth!
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#OTD 1817 Keats visits Shakespeare's Birthplace with his friend Benjamin Bailey. Next to his name in the visitors' book, under 'place of abode', Keats writes 'Everywhere'
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Busy day today - #Halloween AND Keats's birthday...
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#OTD 1818, Keats dines with William and Mary Wordsworth. When Keats tries to make a point about poetry, Mary reaches out, puts her hand on Keats’ arm and whispers, “Mr Wordsworth is never interrupted”
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Today's picture: Byron's name, scratched into the stone at the Temple of Poseidon in Sounio, Greece #RomanticsPics
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#OTD 1816 Polidori isn't having a very exciting Christmas….
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Today's picture: on the anniversary of his death, Keats's grave in Rome #RomanticsPics
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#OTD 1819 Mary Shelley writes "I write in the morning, read Latin till 2..we dine; then I read some English book, & two cantos of Dante with Shelley"
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Today's picture: for Mary Shelley's birthday, a locket holding her and Percy's hair #RomanticsPics
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Today's picture: for Mary Shelley's birthday, a locket holding her and Percy's hair #RomanticsPics
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Today's picture: Byron's name, scratched into the stone at the Temple of Poseidon in Sounio, Greece #RomanticsPics
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#OTD 1813 Byron writes "I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone"
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Today's picture: a locket holding Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's hair, now at @bodleianlibs
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#OTD 1820 Keats writes "I have seen foreign flowers in hothouses, of the most beautiful nature, but I do not care a straw for them. The simple flowers of our Spring are what I want to see again."
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Today's picture: a copy of the dress Mary Shelley wears in the Rothwell portrait, at an exhibition at @Keats_Shelley in 2013 #RomanticsPics
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Today's picture: the first page of #Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's hand #RomanticsPics
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#OTD 1799 William Blake writes "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way"
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#OTD 1818 Coleridge writes "I have this morning been reading a strange publication - viz Poems with very wild interesting pictures." The book is by William Blake - it is Songs of Innocence and Experience
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Today's picture: the first page of Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's hand #RomanticsPics
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Today's picture: Byron's apartment in Venice
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#OTD 1818 Keats dines with William and Mary Wordsworth. When Keats tries to make a point about poetry. Mary reaches out, puts her hand on Keats’ arm and whispers, “Mr Wordsworth is never interrupted”
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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable" Coleridge
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#OTD 1813 Byron writes "I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone"
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#OTD 1818 Keats dines with William and Mary Wordsworth. When Keats tries to make a point about poetry. Mary reaches out, puts her hand on Keats’ arm and whispers, “Mr Wordsworth is never interrupted”
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Today's picture: The Protestant Cemetery in Rome, where Shelley and Keats are both buried #RomanticsPics
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#OTD 1820 Shelley writes "I wonder why I write verses, for nobody reads them"
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#OTD 1807 William Blake writes "Tuesday Jany 20, 1807, between Two & seven in the Evening, Despair"
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Today's picture: for Mary Shelley's birthday, a locket holding her and Percy's hair #RomanticsPics
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Today's picture: The Protestant Cemetery in Rome, where Shelley and Keats are both buried #RomanticsPics
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For Keats's birthday #OTD 1795, a fascinating and meticulously researched blog from @pumps1000 on his gravestone and that famous inscription 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water'
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#OTD 1851 Mary Shelley dies in London. On the first anniversary of her death, her son and his wife opened her desk. Inside they found locks of her dead children's hair, a notebook she'd shared with Percy, and a copy of Adonaïs with one page folded round
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#OTD 1813 Byron: "I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us"
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Today's picture: a copy of the dress Mary Shelley wears in the Rothwell portrait, at an exhibition at @Keats_Shelley in 2013 #RomanticsPics
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#OTD 1820 Shelley writes "I wonder why I write verses, for nobody reads them"
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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable" Coleridge
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Today's picture: a copy of the dress Mary Shelley wears in the Rothwell portrait, at an exhibition at @Keats_Shelley in 2013 #RomanticsPics
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#OTD 1821, Rome, the death of Keats. Severn later writes: "He is gone – he died with the most perfect ease – he seemed to go to sleep. On the 23rd, about 4, the approaches of death came on...." 1/4
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#OTD 1851 Mary Shelley dies in London. On the first anniversary of her death, her son and his wife opened her desk. Inside they found locks of her dead children's hair, a notebook she'd shared with Percy, and a copy of Adonaïs with one page folded round
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#OTD 1819 Keats writes to his brother "You speak of Lord Byron and me — There is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees — I describe what I imagine — Mine is the hardest task"
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Today's picture: Coleridge's study in Highgate #RomanticsPics
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#OTD 1819 Keats writes to his brother "You speak of Lord Byron and me—There is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees—I describe what I imagine—Mine is the hardest task"
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Today's picture: a locket holding Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's hair #RomanticsPics
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#OTD 1816 Polidori isn't having a very exciting Christmas….
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Today's picture: The Protestant Cemetery in Rome, where Shelley and Keats are both buried #RomanticsPics
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#OTD 1816 Byron rents the Villa Diodati for 125 louis for 6 months. It's where #Frankenstein will be conceived
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#OTD 1851 Mary Shelley dies in London. On the first anniversary of her death, her son and his wife opened her desk. Inside they found locks of her dead children's hair, a notebook she'd shared with Percy, and a copy of Adonaïs with one page folded round
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#OTD 1819 Byron writes to his publisher "So you want me to undertake what you call a 'great work?' an Epic Poem, I suppose, or some such. I'll try no such thing; I hate tasks"
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#OTD 1834 Mary Shelley, who is editing Shelley's poems, writes "I am torn to pieces by memory"
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Today's picture: Byron's apartment in Venice #RomanticsPics
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Today's picture: on the anniversary of his death, Keats' grave in Rome   #RomanticsPics
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It's St Agnes Eve tonight so here's Keats' poem "Ah bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold"
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Today's picture: the first page of Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's hand #RomanticsPics
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Today's picture: a locket holding Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's hair #RomanticsPics
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#OTD 1759 birth of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and mother of Mary Shelley
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#OTD 1819 Keats begins La Belle Dame Sans Merci. "O What can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?"
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Today's picture: Ada Lovelace, Byron's daughter, and a pioneer of computer science #RomanticsPics
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Today's picture: the first page of Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's hand #RomanticsPics
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#OTD 1822 Shelley's body is dug up from where it has been buried in the sand for a month and burned on the beach. It takes three hours. Afterwards Byron swims a mile and a half to his boat 1/2
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Today's picture: a locket holding Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's hair #RomanticsPics
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#OnThisDay 1824 Byron dies in Missolonghi after a fall and a fever. By his death, his doctors have removed over 40% of the blood in his body
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#OTD 1813 Byron writes "I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us"
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Today's picture: for #InternationalWomensDay , a woman whose work changed the world. The first page of Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's hand #RomanticsPics
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#OTD 1822 Shelley is drowned in a storm. It will be 10 days before his body is found
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#OTD 1864, John Clare dies in the Northampton Lunatic Asylum, where he'd lived for 20 years. His tombstone says "A Poet is born, not made."
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#OTD 1821, Rome, Keats is buried. The mourners place a turf of daisies on the grave "this would be poor Keats' wish - could he know it"
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Today's picture: for Mary Shelley's birthday, a locket holding her and Percy's hair #RomanticsPics
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