Prof. Emeritus of English UMD & Past President, Keats-Shelley Assoc.;Co-Gen Ed. Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mastadon: https://xitter.cf/t.co/gcpBY3GxxJ

College Park, MD
Joined March 2008
Wow!
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I offered to write a blurb but somehow they didn't think it would be appropriate. What a book! Beautifully written, suspenseful, and reworking old gothic conventions for something surprising, new, and moving.
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Great opportunity!
Call for funding applications 💰. The Carl H. Pforzheimer grants support research projects by graduate students, independent scholars, and untenured faculty. More information here: k-saa.squarespace.com/config…
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See the images, with searchable transcription by Michelle Faubert, along with her introduction on Shelley-Godwin Archive: shelleygodwinarchive.org/con…
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Neil Fraistat @fraistat.bsky.social retweeted
For Mary Shelley's birthday #OTD 1797, here are some of our posts on her and her work...
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Looking forward to this!
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They did a great job!
In honor of Mary Shelley’s birthday, here is a brilliantly designed and illustrated #Frankenstein story map created by Caitlin Burke and Patricia Herron of @UofMaryland. uofmd.maps.arcgis.com/apps/M… @KSAAcomm @Keats_Shelley @Wordsworthians @Fraistat
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Athanase also contains one of the most unfortunate simile's in Shelley's poetry: "They past like aimless arrows from his ear—"
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Working on Shelley's Athanase, bearing on the fate of Twitter: ".... did he not e’er abuse The strength of wealth or thought, to consecrate Those false opinions which the hard rich use To blind the world they famish for their pride;
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Quite relevant still, Paine hit the nail on the head and was echoed by Blake, Shelley, and a myriad of others: “It is the faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates”
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There are no direct contemporary accounts of PBS actually launching such balloons, though there is such evidence for him launching bottles into the Bristol Channel containing The Devil's Walk. For this & the arrest of Dan Healey, see Fraistat and Reiman: romantic-circles.org/edition…
The servant was arrested and thrown in jail. Shelley left town and left him there. Not his finest hour... Here's a poem he wrote about the balloons... bit.ly/1truHMD 2/2
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Early social media
#OTD 1812 After alarming reports from Devon, the Home Secretary notes "Recommend that Mr Shelley's proceedings be watched" Shelley was dispensing radical material - he got his servant to pin flyers to trees and sent others up in fire balloons.. . 1/2
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I don't think he was ever anyone's "very obedient servant."
#OTD 1818 Shelley writes to the publisher Lackington's about #Frankenstein
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Buffalo hunting?
#OTD 1794 Southey writes of the Utopian 'Pantisocratic' project "When Coleridge and I are sawing down a tree, we shall discuss metaphysics, criticize poetry when hunting a buffalo; and write sonnets whilst following the plough" 🤔 wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2015/…
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Aww. I hold it close to my heart too--until my arms hurt.
Replying to @fraistat
@fraistat Awaiting the next volume…
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For Shelley the mind is like a river. For me, it is like a sieve.
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Wonderful photo
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Byron gets something amounting to sun poisoning from this swim, something that long hampers him
#OTD 1822, Viareggio. Shelley's body is dug up from where it has been buried in the sand for a month and burned on the beach. It takes three hours. Afterwards Byron swims a mile and a half to his boat 1/2
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Neil Fraistat @fraistat.bsky.social retweeted
#OTD 1822, Viareggio. Shelley's body is dug up from where it has been buried in the sand for a month and burned on the beach. It takes three hours. Afterwards Byron swims a mile and a half to his boat 1/2
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