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...and studying literature... Romantic authorship Professor Andrew Bennett discusses the idea of authorship. The self How did Romantic writers represent ‘the self’? Wordsworth and De Quincy Bill Greenwell adapts one of Wordsworth’s poems ‘To daffodils’ in the voice of Thomas De Quincy. Romantic timelines What is the impact of writing in different literary periods?...

...write some brief notes about the ideas being presented. You will return to these later in the session. [GENTLE MUSIC] ROSALIND CRONE This is Lincoln Castle, a fortress built in the wake of the Norman invasion of England in the 11th Century. Its construction included a dungeon just underneath me, where enemies of the crown were imprisoned. From about the 14th century, a...

...write "reminiscences" of a friend who has gone from us all. It is not easy to make an effort and to remember all the little personalia of some one one has loved very much, and by whom one has been loved. And yet it is in a measure one's duty to tell the world something of the inner life of a famous man; and Lewis Carroll was so wonderful a personality, and so good a man,...

...writing and print production of theses was very different to ‘crowdsourcing’ and other online methods of sharing ideas in use today. In Book 1, Chapters 1 - 5, Herodotus introduces some background to his great work, mentioning the roots of the ‘quarrel’ in the myths of Troy. It’s interesting to note in Chapter 5 that he states: ‘These are the stories of the...

...write a symphony which could measure up to his. It was not only men who were writing symphonies in the early nineteenth century, however. Louise Farrenc (1804–1875) and Emilie Mayer (1812–1883) both composed symphonies, alongside works in a wide range of other musical genres. Louise Farrenc was a French composer, pianist, teacher and music scholar. She was born into...