The Romanticism blog Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Indicator: Amiscellany For The Fields And The Fireside
Leigh Hunt#OTD 1819 Shelley’s 'Love’s Philosophy' is published by Leigh Hunt in the The Indicator https://t.co/XVfU5bHV5A https://t.co/xxQXw0QK1C
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Valperga: Or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley#OTD 1823 Publication of Mary Shelley's Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca. "I have taken great liberties with it", wrote Godwin, who edited his daughter's novel for publication https://t.co/clTfTrE1rN
Hardcover, 2022
$33.95Member price:$30.56 + Free shipping10% off
William Wordsworth - The Prelude: "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
William Wordsworth#OTD 1812 Wordsworth writes to his wife: "Write to me frequently & the longest Letters possible… fill your paper with the breathings of your heart" https://t.co/pMwKxXR1ll
Paperback, 2015
$15.24Member price:$7.62 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lord Byron: Six Plays
Lord George Gordon ByronToday's picture: a walking stick with a metal band engraved: "George Gordon Lord Byron Newstead 1808". The mermaid is from the Byron family crest @Newstead_Abbey https://t.co/zqzpVZwWxA
Paperback, 2007
$29.95Member price:$28.45 + Free shipping5% off
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
William Godwin#OTD 1793 William Godwin's enormously influential Enquiry Concerning Political Justice is published. And here Simon Court blogs on the importance that book had https://t.co/HkJ4BKP6cG https://t.co/KUFqlNK64Z
Paperback, 2022
$20.95Member price:$18.86 + Free shipping10% off
Fanny Keats
Marie AdamiToday's picture: Fanny, Keats's sister. And here's more about her, in a post on Keats's circle by @pumps1000 https://t.co/fgB2byGEe0 https://t.co/b8hCWMoSmZ #RomanticsPics
Hardcover, 2010
$47.95Member price:$43.15 + Free shipping10% off![Book Cover for: Newstead Abbey: Its Present Owner [Colonel Thomas Wildman] With Reminiscences of Lord Byron, George Gordon Byron Byron](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781021215802.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709844543)
Newstead Abbey: Its Present Owner [Colonel Thomas Wildman] With Reminiscences of Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron ByronToday's picture: a walking stick with a metal band engraved: "George Gordon Lord Byron Newstead 1808". The mermaid is from the Byron family crest @Newstead_Abbey https://t.co/zqzpVZwWxA
Paperback, 2023
$15.95Member price:$14.35 + Free shipping10% off
Keats: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington
John Keats#OTD 1817 Keats receives finished copies of 'Poems by John Keats'. And here @ColSilverUK blogs on Keats' relationship with his publishers, and how that volume of poems got into print https://t.co/6TfYxAh3ce https://t.co/2bMpA2cCrc
Hardcover, 1994
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Adventures of Caleb Williams: Things as They Are
William Godwin#OTD 1794 William Godwin publishes his novel Caleb Williams, or 'Things as They Are', which dramatises his political ideas in fiction. Here's Simon Court on William Godwin, Political Justice, anarchism and the Romantics https://t.co/HkJ4BKP6cG https://t.co/vwRRV3l3He
Paperback, 2016
$10.95Member price:$5.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind...
William WordsworthFor the #12DaysOfChristmas, Day 3 Wordsworth describes a hen, from Book 7 of The Prelude… https://t.co/M2eiP4aV9x 'Behold the parent hen amid her brood, Though fledged and feathered, and well pleased to part And straggle from her presence, still a brood' #ThreeFrenchHens https://t.co/PpjFjLs0aU
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