text by Dorota Osińska Warsaw Literary Meetings have been an integral part of our research. This series of one-day workshops is organised to generate discussions and encourage cooperation among scholars with diverse research interests. Each workshop focuses on a specific theme in the literary and cultural life of the 18th and 19th centuries, examining the […]
text by Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys Apart from many other good reasons, there is a particularly good motivation to visit London in May: the annual John Keats Conference, which I have had the pleasure of attending three times by now. The conference is organized by the John Keats Foundation and held at an extraordinary place: Keats House […]
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 […]
