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Oct 17, 2022

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Reading the Romantics

Exploring the lives and works of famous literary figures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Geoff Ward

The book that spawned the drug memoir

2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication in book form of Thomas de Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater — a seminal…

Oct 17, 2022

The book that spawned the drug memoir

Oct 17, 2022

Geoff Ward

The sex scandal that shocked the literary world of the 1820s

Two hundred years ago, the English essayist and painter William Hazlitt was in the middle of a tragi-comic love affair which led to a…

Sep 1, 2021

The sex scandal that shocked the literary world of the 1820s

Sep 1, 2021

Geoff Ward

In Keats’s untimely death, did Shelley foresee his own?

John Keats died 200 years ago this month, on February 23, 1821, the loss lamented in the elegy Adonais published a few months later by…

Feb 2, 2021

In Keats’s untimely death, did Shelley foresee his own?

Feb 2, 2021

Geoff Ward

William Wordsworth and the book of poetry that changed everything

April 7, 2020, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the great English poet William Wordsworth, and April 23, the 170th anniversary…

Apr 3, 2020

William Wordsworth and the book of poetry that changed everything

Apr 3, 2020

Geoff Ward

Celebrating the bicentenary of the great odes that assured John Keats of eternal fame

Keats’s 1819 odes explore the use of the imagination and the creative process to cope with the problems of time, change and the suffering…

Sep 18, 2019

Celebrating the bicentenary of the great odes that assured John Keats of eternal fame

Sep 18, 2019

Geoff Ward

It’s the 200th anniversary of John Keats writing his famous ‘Ode to Autumn’

September 2019 marks 200 years since ‘Ode to Autumn’ was written by John Keats, the tragic Romantic genius who died of tuberculosis at the…

Sep 16, 2019

It’s the 200th anniversary of John Keats writing his famous ‘Ode to Autumn’

Sep 16, 2019

Geoff Ward

Geoff Ward

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Writer, journalist, book editor, poet, musician and tutor in literature and creative writing (MA and BA Hons degrees in English literature).

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