British Romanticism and the Global Climate

As a result of developments in the meteorological and geological sciences, the Romantic period saw the gradual emergence of attempts to understand the climate as a dynamic global system that could potentially be affected by human activity. This chapter examines textual responses to climate disruption cause by the Laki eruption of 1783 and the Tambora eruption of 1815. During the Laki haze, writers such as Horace Walpole, Gilbert White, and William Cowper found in Milton a powerful way of understanding the entanglements of culture and climate at a time of national and global crisis. Apocalyptic discourse continued to resonate during the Tambora crisis, as is evident in eyewitness accounts of the eruption, in the utopian predictions of John Barrow and Eleanor Anne Porden, and in the grim speculations of Byron’s ‘Darkness’. Romantic writing offers a powerful analogue for thinking about climate change in the Anthropocene

On the Scandinavian Element in the English Language

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Seynt Graal, or The Sank Ryal.: The history of the Holy Graal, partly in English verse,

Vol. I, Rev. John Stuart Hippisley Horner's copy (name in red in list of members).The French prose version (Royal ms. XIV, E III, in the British museum) is printed in the margin.Reedited, without the French text, for the Early English text society, Extra series, no. 20, 24, 28, 30, and 95, 1874-1905.Added t.-p. engr., with vignette, and engr. head-piece (v. 1).v. 1. With a prefatory essay On the saga of the Holy Graal, by San Marte, that is, Albert Schulz ... and an appendix--a reprint of the early French verse Romanz de l'estore dou Graal.--v. 2. With a note on the early Byrons and Robert de Buron, by Charles H. Pearson ... a prefatory essay on Arthur, by the late Herbert Coleridge. And an appendix--The birthe and the engendrure of Mordret [from Lovelich's translation of Merlin].Mode of access: Internet