text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko Continuing the annual reports marking our anniversaries (year 1 and year 2), here’s what we’ve been doing over the last 12 months. WLM 13 Science and Literary Imagination in 18th- and 19th-century Britain was the topic of the latest workshop in our online series. WLM Rising Stars 3 This time, the […]
text by Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish 2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of James Hogg’s seminal work, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. James Hogg (1770–1835), often referred to as the “Ettrick Shepherd”, was a Scottish poet, novelist, and essayist who came from a humble rural background. Born into a family of […]
text by Monika Coghen … for true words are things, And dying men’s are things which long outlive,And oftentimes avenge them … Byron, Marino Faliero, act V, sc. I, 162-164 In one of his last poems “January 22nd, Missolonghi. On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year,” Byron memorably expressed a desire for a soldier’s death. Some […]
