The Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died #OnThisDay, 8th July 1822, at the age of 29, when his boat went down in a sudden storm off the coast of the Gulf of La Spezia.
Category: Poetry
Posted on April 14, 2020
Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate review – fleet-footed and inspiriting 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ In 1798, William Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at the cottage of his friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Nether Stowey in Somerset.
Posted on April 7, 2020
William Wordsworth was born on 7th April 1770. #OnThisDay 250 years ago.
Posted on March 11, 2020
Poet's corners: a car-free tour of inspiring Wordsworth sites 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ William Wordsworth was born in Cumbria 250 years ago, on 7 April 1770. Inspired by nature and a sense of place, he was an environmentalist as well as a poet, so it’s fitting to visit the places he celebrated in as eco-friendly a way as possible.
Posted on February 4, 2020
Walking in London – Finding poetry, politics and more – a Flickr album 📷 🔗
Posted on January 30, 2020
Keats Bar at the Globe. Drinking a London Pride by Fuller’s Brewery. Check in 🗺
Posted on January 30, 2020
Keats House, Hampstead
Posted on January 30, 2020
Keats House. Check in 🗺
Posted on January 29, 2020
Shelley in London: Poland Street 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ Soho is my favourite part of London. I love walking from Oxford Circus to Leicester Square, dipping into Covent Garden.
Posted on December 11, 2019
Fascism: I sometimes fear… — link to a poem by Michael Rosen 🔗