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@SharonRuston is giving a talk called ‘From Humphry Davy to Frankenstein’ @ the University of Lund in Sweden on Wednesday 25th March.

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening...

Come and read for a PhD in English literature with me and my wonderful colleagues at Lund University. Closing date 20 December 2025. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

Out next week: the Shelleys’ History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (1817) for the first time in paperback with notes. Also includes an introduction, appendices, maps… just received my editor copies! Ed. by @VonDuffstein & myself for @OWC_Oxford. 📚

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@capulet32 🤣

@VonDuffstein Maybe he was color blind? 😎

A minor botanical - poetical mystery, still unresolved: why did Percy Shelley say he always thought of the 'fair Celandine/ As of a flower aery blue' in his 'Verses written on receiving a Celandine in a letter from England'?

Cheese shopping for Easter. Wondering how much will survive until Easter.

From 1772 to 1783 Mary Delany made 985 intricate & botanically accurate floral mosaics out of paper. They were the precursors of the collage style of #art. In a letter to her niece, Mary said she had invented a new way of imitating flowers. #MythologyMonday

'me sweetest flowers delayed not long... but among/ The thickest billows of the living storm/ I plunged, and bared my bosom to the clime/ Of that cold light, whose airs, too soon deform' {PB Shelley).

Early morning ferry crossing. Bound for Lund and three days of the SWESSE national forum at English Studies. Can only be great with great colleagues like @bannbarrow @MonikaClass @satu_manninen @jorunnjoiner

West coast of Ireland, east coast of Denmark, anemones. All changed, changed utterly...

Happy #InternationalPolarBearDay! Read Michael Engelhard's essay "Darwin's Polar Bear" looking at the often overlooked role they played in the development of evolutionary theory: buff.ly/2HY8STq #polarbears (Pictured: a circa 1808 etching by S. C. Miger.)

The Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants by Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson Elucidates the long history of plants in literature across global traditions, examining both literary form and cultural context. 📚 cup.org/3DyFWBu #europeanlit

Windy on the Øresund today.

What will become of English studies? And what future does the study of Romanticism have? Come an present a paper at the 2025 National Forum: "The future in and of English Studies". Currently accepting paper proposals for the panel "Romantic Futures" konferens.ht.lu.se/the-13th-natio…

Lund Christmas Trees 🎄

Hello again Uppsala...

Hello again Zagreb. Lovely to be back. Lectures on Coleridge and Keats for me today.

You are welcome to attend the 17th International IDEA Conference: Studies in English, which will be held at Fırat University (Türkiye). Abstract submissions are open. idea17.firat.edu.tr