The Keats-Shelley Association of America Blog
Our blog features a range of posts on the topic of Romanticism, including commentary on current news items; dispatches of official K-SAA business and descriptions of our initiatives; calls for contributions; event notices; publication announcements, and more.
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Ambitious New K-SAA Initiatives: A Letter from K-SAA President Stuart Curran
In this letter, K-SAA President Stuart Curran announces new discounts for graduate students and unaffiliated scholars to encourage them to take part in the annual awards dinner at the MLA convention. He also announces a brand new initiative, "Romantic Bicentennials," which will consist of a series of symposia and other commemorative events. The initiative is co-sponsored by the Byron Society of America.
NYPL: Andrew Stott and Melanie Rehak discuss The Poet and the Vampyre
Melanie Rehak and Andrew Stott will discuss Stott’s new book, The Vampyre and the Poet: The Curse of Byron and the Birth of Literature’s Greatest Monsters. Lord Byron spent the summer of 1816 in the Swiss countryside with his friends John Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and Claire Clairmont. Stott recounts how, at Byron’s suggestion that the group trade ghost stories, Mary Shelley and Polidori created two of literature’s most revered monsters: Frankenstein and The Vampyre, the predecessor of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
CFP: John Keats: Poet-Physician, Physician-Poet, 1815-1821
The Keats Foundation announces its second bicentenary conference, to be held from the afternoon of Friday 1 until the evening of Sunday 3 May 2015 at Guy’s Hospital London. The conference marks the 200th anniversary of John Keats enrolling to study medicine at Guy’s Hospital in 1815.
Young Romantics: A New Prize for Young Writers
The Keats-Shelley Memorial Association is delighted to announce the launch of Young Romantics with Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy CBE as the Chairman of the judges. This unique literary prize asks writers to take their inspiration from the words, lives and ideas of the Romantics. Young writers aged between 16 and 18 are invited to enter poems and short stories specifically inspired by the Romantics. It is FREE to enter and students can submit up to two stories and two poems.
Annual Awards Dinner
Saturday 10 January 2015. Please join us to honor this year's K-SAA Distinguished Scholars Ina Ferris and Nicholas Roe, as well as recipients of the 2014 Best Essay Award and the Pforzheimer Research Grants. The dinner takes place at the Listel Hotel in Vancouver, BC. Click below for more information and to make reservations online.