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John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
… defend his genius and preserve his memory for posterity. Friendship was always central to Keats’s life; his poetry and letters attest to a vitally social existence, and to the lasting influence of London literary coteries on his development … of mingled Yarn,’ writes John Keats (1795-1821), echoing his presiding genius, William Shakespeare, in an October 1817 letter to Benjamin Bailey which details the sometimes fraught relationships between members of the Hunt Circle. 1 The statement, like the letter from which it arises, is characteristic of Keats – the second-generation Romantic poet best known for the …
Correspondence | Friendship | Nature | Poetry | Politics | Romanticism
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Discourse of the nature, offices, and measures of friendship (1657) [ Concepts ]
Friendship | Gift
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Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
Correspondence | Emotions | Fiction | Friendship
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William Godwin (and his diary) [ Philosophy / Politics / Political & Moral philosophy / Feelings & Emotions / Diaries & Letters ]
Conventions | Correspondence | Diaries | Friendship | Politics | Radicalism
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Lord Byron [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… France notamment Alfred de Musset, Alfred de Vigny, Alphonse de Lamartine et George Sand. 23 22 . John Murray, Byron’s Letters and Journals (London : Leslie A. Marchand, 1973-1994) 23 . Edmond Estève, Byron et le romantisme français : essai … on 04/22/2024, URL: https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/lord-byron.html Further Reading Lansdown, Richard, Byron's Letters and Journals : a New Selection : from Leslie A. Marchand's Twelve-Volume Edition (Oxford: Oxford University … grecque, la vie de Byron s’enrichit de réseaux tissés à l’échelle européenne. … Lansdown, Richard, Byron's Letters and Journals : a New Selection : from Leslie A. Marchand's Twelve-Volume Edition (Oxford: Oxford University …
Dandy | Friendship | Greece | Italy | Love | Orient | Orgies | Politics | Romanticism
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Petersfield in Hampshire (and French prisoners of war in the 1790s) [ Law & Order ]
Community | Conviviality | French Revolution | Friendship | Travel | War
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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… William Pickersgill, ‘Hannah More’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 412, 1822. Abstract Hannah More, a woman of letters, was a Christian activist and philanthropist. Her sociable life in Britain’s major social centers, London and … first published locally, was republished in London where it won her public recognition. 1 There, thanks to her friends’ letters of introduction, she rubbed shoulders with the literati of the bluestocking circle, dominated by Mrs Montagu of … was Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy. 4 . MS: Weston Library, University of Oxford, MS Wilberforce d. 15, ff. 70-1, The Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition (https://www.18thcenturycommon.org/ letters-hannah-digital-edition/). …
Bluestockings | Charity | Education | Evangelicalism | Friendship | Manners | Philanthropy | Poverty | Reformation | Religion | Slavery | Women
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Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… would form the underpinnings of her enduring friendships with David Garrick and Robert Liston. 1 1 . Mme Riccoboni's Letters to David Hume, David Garrick, Robert Liston, ed. James C. Nicholls (Oxford, The Voltaire Foundation, 1976). … in England and were frequently pirated. Garrick introduced Riccoboni to the bookseller, Thomas Becket ( Mme Riccoboni's Letters , Lettre du 20 novembre 1770, 164) who would publish English translations of most of her novels ( Mme Riccoboni's Letters , Lettre du 1 novembre 1772, 277). It seems she was not entirely satisfied with Becket’s services, however, as …
Anglomania | Correspondence | France | Friendship | Theatre
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
Affection | Benevolence | Conversation | Family | Friendship | Imagination | Patriotism | Science | Sympathy
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