Editor Serena Alagappan reports on the People’s Recorder, a podcast about the Federal Writers’ Project: The show “reminds us that when writers devote their time and talent to listening, we all gain, as [Kiki] Petrosino puts it, a ‘richer sense of ourselves and our neighbors.’” at.pw.org/LitHistory

🔥Poet, Rebel, Legend: Lord Byron🔥
#AuthorOfTheDay #LordByron #Romanticism

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#Byron #FionaMacCarthy #PoetryLovers #LitHistory #Bookstagram #OnThisDay #19thCenturyVibes

On This Day: June 25
In 1903, George Orwell was born. Without him, we’d have no Big Brother, no Newspeak, no doublethink, no Animal Farm. I'm not sure he'd want to be as relevant as he is 122 years on. I sure wish he wasn't. #OnThisDay #GeorgeOrwell #LitHistory #BookNerd

It’s International Dylan Thomas Day.

Celebrated each year on May 14 to honor the Welsh poet whose work turned breath and sound into scripture.

Raise a glass. Read a stanza. Do not go gentle.

#OnThisDay #DylanThomas #Poetry #UnderMilkWood #LitHistory

On This Day: July 2, 1961
Ernest Hemingway died. The Nobel-winning author of The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and so much more. Gone, but still everywhere you look. (Particularly if you look for tortured teenagers in a high school English classroom) #OnThisDay #LitHistory #Hemingway

On This Day: July 1, 1804
George Sand was born. French novelist, memoirist, and literary firebrand. She blazed trails in feminist literature and romantic realism. Also, ask Chopin how much she shaped a genius because he may not have made it without her. #OnThisDay #LitHistory #GeorgeSand #Chopin

Poetic feud of the day: Byron vs. Keats.
Byron called Keats’ work “mental masturbation.” Keats hated Byron’s arrogance. After Keats died young of tuberculosis, Byron mocked him in Don Juan for being too delicate for the world. Peak petty, literary edition. #LitHistory #PoetryFeuds #LordByron #Keats

Roman à clef - a “novel with a key,” in other words, a semi-fictional recounting or examination of a real event, person, or group of people. The “key” is the connection between the fiction and the real story the author is referring to

#booktrivia #lithistory #literature #writing

On This Day: May 22
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Cassatt, and Richard Wagner all share this birthday. Imagine Sherlock Holmes painted in Impressionist light, solving cases in the middle of a Wagner opera.

The collaboration we deserved.

#OnThisDay #LitHistory #ArtHistory #MusicHistory #BirthdayClub

If Anne Bradstreet could keep writing through it all, I have no excuses.

Anne Bradstreet, America's first published poet: youtu.be/q1_2VUwUSQ0?...

#annebradstreet #americanliterature #storytelling #LitHistory #poetry #womensliterature #womenslit #femalepoets #writersofbluesky

Renée Vivien was an English poet who published her first two books under the pseudonym "R. Vivien." This and the sapphic nature of her poems resulted in her and her partner, Natalie Barney, having to stifle their giggles at a misreading by the lecturer assuming Vivien was male. #LitHistory

Lit. History Q&A Series: Chaucer’s Use of the London Dialect Underscores his Significance in the History Of English Literature.

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