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Saturday, 31 October 2020

John Keats was born #OnThisDay, 31st October 1795. And on 31st October 1820 the 25 year old poet also first set foot on Italian soil after 35 days at sea and 10 in quarantine. Keats-Shelley Memorial Association podcast 🔗

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Tuesday, 4 August 2020

The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born #OnThisDay, 4th August 1792.

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Wednesday, 8 July 2020

The Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died #OnThisDay, 8th July 1822, at the age of 29, when his boat went down in a sudden storm off the coast of the Gulf of La Spezia.

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Tuesday, 7 April 2020

William Wordsworth was born on 7th April 1770. #OnThisDay 250 years ago.

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Thursday, 28 November 2019

William Blake, poet and printmaker, was born #OnThisDay 1757 BBC In Our Time

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Friday, 4 August 2017

The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born #OnThisDay in 1792 - The Later Romantics

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Saturday, 11 March 2017

RT @BBCInOurTime: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, conceived in a long summer storm in 1816, was published #OnThisDay 1818 https://t.co/IBRFGta…

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Sunday, 22 January 2017

RT @BBCInOurTime: Lord Byron, poet, was born #OnThisDay 1788 https://t.co/Vophborhnx

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Friday, 8 July 2016

RT @britishlibrary: Percy Bysshe Shelley died #otd in 1822. Explore how he came to write his poem ‘To a Skylark’ https://t.co/NOYOvXiEly ht…

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