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Grasmere Journal (1800) [ Practices / People ]
… morning. Wm. walked to Ambleside after dinner. I went with him part of the way. He talked much about the object of his essay for the second volume of "L. B." ... Amos Cottle's death in the Morning Post . N.B. —When William and I returned … came in while we were at dinner, very wet. We talked till twelve o'clock. He had sate up all the night before, writing essays for the newspaper.... Exceedingly delighted with the second part of Christabel . Sunday Morning, 5th October. …
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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… beauty.' While little material is available about William Gilpin’s sociable connexions and activities, his aesthetic essays, his autobiographical writings and letters help to qualify the image of the asocial theoretician of the … at home (Gilpin, William writes to William , 2, 8, 24, 44) to his concern for the publication and reception of his essays on picturesque beauty. 7 7 . Bodleian Library, Ms. Eng. Let. 6. 27, 43, 49, 51 A socializing holiday-maker? In … of Scotland in 1776), for which he accounted in his notebooks , which were published in the 1780s and 1790s in several essays of ‘observations’. The satirical accounts that were afterwards made of his travels and cartooned by Rowlandson …
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John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
… friendship and sociability circulating in literary coteries of the time. 2 . See, for example, the recent collection of essays in Keats’s Places, ed. Richard Marggraf Turley (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). 3 . Nicholas Roe, … blossoms into broader reflections on the democratizing potential of friendly dialogue: 6 . As Ronald Sharp writes, in an essay dedicated to the subject, ‘So fully did friendship pervade Keats’s life and work that it can have the dulling force … obvious’ (‘Keats and Friendship,’ in Robert M. Ryan and Ronald A. Sharp (eds.), The Persistence of Poetry: Bicentennial Essays on Keats [Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998]), pp. 66-81, p. 67. 7 . John Mee, ‘Introduction’, in …
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Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
… gardens in London from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century. Soon after the opening, the essayist John Evelyn, in 1661, called it ‘ the New Spring Garden at Lambeth, a pretty contrived plantation ‘ (‘new ‘ by …
Entertainement | Exhibitions | Gothic | Music | Nature | Pleasure gardens
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