literature

<p>Why Tolkien thought “sub-creation” was the secret to great fantasy and science fiction</p><p>According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as “sub-creation.” And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.</p><p>By Jonny Thomson</p><p><a href="https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/tolkien-fantasy-science-fiction/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/tolkien-fantasy-science-fiction/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/t</span><span class="invisible">olkien-fantasy-science-fiction/</span></a></p><p>Fantasy books at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/138" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/138"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/138</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>&quot;The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1844.</p><p>Alexandre Dumas père&#x27;s near-recent historical adventure story Le Comte de Monte-Cristo begins serialization in the Paris newspaper Journal des débats, and continues through to January 1846. Book publication also begins this year.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coun</span><span class="invisible">t_of_Monte_Cristo</span></a></p><p>The Count of Monte Cristo at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Le+Comte+de+Monte-Cristo&amp;submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Le+Comte+de+Monte-Cristo&amp;submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q</span><span class="invisible">uery=Le+Comte+de+Monte-Cristo&amp;submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference<br>17 January, University of Glasgow – £25 (includes tea, coffee, lunch, &amp; a toast) </p><p>A day conference exploring the life, work, &amp; legacy of Robert Burns.This year, the conference theme is the Burns Supper: a global phenomenon that celebrates its 225th anniversary in 2026.</p><p>@litstudies </p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for-robert-burns-studies-conference-tickets-1851549627779" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for-robert-burns-studies-conference-tickets-1851549627779"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-</span><span class="invisible">for-robert-burns-studies-conference-tickets-1851549627779</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/robertburns/" rel="tag">#RobertBurns</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/song/" rel="tag">#song</a> <a href="/tags/romanticism/" rel="tag">#romanticism</a> <a href="/tags/burnssupper/" rel="tag">#BurnsSupper</a></p>

<p>“The Crocodile,” Dostoevsky’s Weirdest Short Story.</p><p>Why being eaten by a crocodile named Little Karl is really a lesson in the dangers of foreign capital.</p><p>By: Emily Zarevich via @JSTOR_Daily </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/the-crocodile-dostoevskys-weirdest-short-story/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/the-crocodile-dostoevskys-weirdest-short-story/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/the-crocodile-</span><span class="invisible">dostoevskys-weirdest-short-story/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Creative Conversations: Rachelle Atalla<br>9 March, University of Glasgow – free</p><p>The perfect escape. The perfect nightmare.</p><p>Rachelle Atalla discusses her unsettling, creepy, &amp; claustrophobic novel, THE SALT FLATS</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-conversations-rachelle-atalla-tickets-1984284674878" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-conversations-rachelle-atalla-tickets-1984284674878"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creativ</span><span class="invisible">e-conversations-rachelle-atalla-tickets-1984284674878</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#novel</a> <a href="/tags/thriller/" rel="tag">#thriller</a></p>

<p>I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion<br>Has broken Nature’s social union,<br>An’ justifies that ill opinion,‍‍<br>‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍Which makes thee startle,<br>At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,‍‍<br>‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍An’ fellow-mortal!</p><p>—Robert Burns, “To a Mouse, On turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785”</p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/robertburns/" rel="tag">#RobertBurns</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotlsanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotlsanguage</a> <a href="/tags/environmentalism/" rel="tag">#environmentalism</a> <a href="/tags/naturewriting/" rel="tag">#naturewriting</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thCentury</a> <a href="/tags/romanticism/" rel="tag">#Romanticism</a> <a href="/tags/november/" rel="tag">#November</a> <a href="/tags/winter/" rel="tag">#winter</a></p>

<p>American poet and playwright Georgia Douglas Johnson was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1880.</p><p>Her first collection of poetry, &quot;The Heart of a Woman&quot; (1918), was one of the earliest books of poetry published by a Black woman in the United States. Her second volume, &quot;Bronze&quot; (1922), focuses more explicitly on racial issues, delving into the experiences of Black Americans and the injustices they faced in society. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Douglas_Johnson" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Douglas_Johnson"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_</span><span class="invisible">Douglas_Johnson</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>

<p>&quot;Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.&quot;<br>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (ed. 1793)</p><p>British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women&#x27;s rights Mary Wollstonecraft was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1759. In &quot;A Vindication of the Rights of Woman&quot; (1792), Wollstonecraft argued that women are not naturally inferior to men but appear so only because of a lack of education. </p><p>Books by Mary Wollstonecraft at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/84" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/84"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/84</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Whole Duty of Children<br>by Robert Louis Stevenson</p><p>A child should always say what’s true<br>And speak when he is spoken to,<br>And behave mannerly at table:<br>At least as far as he is able.</p><p>—from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)</p><p>Today, 20 November, is World Children’s Day.</p><p><a href="https://www.unicef.org/take-action/campaigns/world-childrens-day" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.unicef.org/take-action/campaigns/world-childrens-day"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.unicef.org/take-action/cam</span><span class="invisible">paigns/world-childrens-day</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#children</a> <a href="/tags/childrensliterature/" rel="tag">#childrensliterature</a> <a href="/tags/kidlit/" rel="tag">#kidlit</a> <a href="/tags/robertlouisstevenson/" rel="tag">#RobertLouisStevenson</a> <a href="/tags/worldchildrensday/" rel="tag">#WorldChildrensDay</a></p>

<p>&quot;As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect.&quot;<br>First lines</p><p>In October 1915.</p><p>Franz Kafka&#x27;s seminal novella The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) is first published in Die Weißen Blätter. Kafka finishes writing The Trial this year, but it will not be published until 1925, the year after his death.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meta</span><span class="invisible">morphosis</span></a></p><p>The Metamorphosis at PG, translated by David Wyllie:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/5200" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/5200</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>English novelist, poet, playwright, and critic D. H. Lawrence was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1885.</p><p>Four of his most famous novels — Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love , and Lady Chatterley&#x27;s Lover— were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of sexuality and use of explicit language.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._La</span><span class="invisible">wrence</span></a></p><p>Books by D.H. Lawrence at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/123" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/123"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/123</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/literarycriticism/" rel="tag">#literarycriticism</a></p>

<p>See ma mammy<br>See ma dinner ticket<br>A pititnma<br>Pokit an she pititny<br>Washnmachine…</p><p>—Margaret Hamilton, “Lament for a Lost Dinner Ticket”<br>published in NEW POEMS 1972–73: a PEN anthology of contemporary poetry, ed. Douglas Dunn (Hutchinson, 1973)</p><p><a href="https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/node/id/21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.scotslanguage.com/articles/node/id/21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.scotslanguage.com/articles</span><span class="invisible">/node/id/21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/childhood/" rel="tag">#childhood</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#children</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a> #<a href="/tags/worldchildrensday/" rel="tag">#WorldChildrensDay</a></p>

<p>The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out<br>Through the blinds and the windows and bars;<br>And high overhead and all moving about,<br>There were thousands of millions of stars…</p><p>—Robert Louis Stevenson, “Escape at Bedtime”<br>from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)</p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/childrensliterature/" rel="tag">#Childrensliterature</a> <a href="/tags/kidlit/" rel="tag">#kidlit</a> <a href="/tags/childhood/" rel="tag">#childhood</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#children</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/victorian/" rel="tag">#Victorian</a> <a href="/tags/robertlouisstevenson/" rel="tag">#RobertLouisStevenson</a> <a href="/tags/worldchildrensday/" rel="tag">#WorldChildrensDay</a></p>

<p>The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time, According to 750,000 Readers in the UK (2003)</p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2025/10/the-100-greatest-novels-of-all-time-according-to-750000-readers-in-the-uk-2003.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.openculture.com/2025/10/the-100-greatest-novels-of-all-time-according-to-750000-readers-in-the-uk-2003.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.openculture.com/2025/10/th</span><span class="invisible">e-100-greatest-novels-of-all-time-according-to-750000-readers-in-the-uk-2003.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Cauld, cauld as the wall<br>That rins frae under the snaw<br>On Ben a’Bhuird…</p><p>—Nan Shepherd, “Cauld, cauld as the wall”<br>published in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL, 2017)</p><p><a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asls.org.uk/publications/books</span><span class="invisible">/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="/tags/winter/" rel="tag">#winter</a></p>

<p>&quot;What we chang&#x27;d<br>Was innocence for innocence; we knew not<br>The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream&#x27;d<br>That any did.&quot;<br>Polixenes, scene ii</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1912.</p><p>Harley Granville-Barker&#x27;s production of Shakespeare&#x27;s The Winter&#x27;s Tale opens at the Savoy Theatre, London, with simplified scenery, ensemble acting and naturalistic verse-speaking. It is replaced in November by his production of Twelfth Night.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winter%27s_Tale" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winter%27s_Tale"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wint</span><span class="invisible">er%27s_Tale</span></a></p><p>Winter&#x27;s Tale at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1539" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/1539</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>

<p>Surrealism at 100: A Reading List</p><p>On the centennial of the founding of Surrealism, this reading list examines its radical beginnings, its mass popularity, and its continued evolution.</p><p>By Allison C. Meier via @JSTOR_Daily </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/surrealism-at-100-a-reading-list/?utm_term=Surrealism%20at%20100%3A%20A%20Reading%20List&amp;utm_campaign=jstordaily_09192024&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/surrealism-at-100-a-reading-list/?utm_term=Surrealism%20at%20100%3A%20A%20Reading%20List&amp;utm_campaign=jstordaily_09192024&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/surrealism-at-</span><span class="invisible">100-a-reading-list/?utm_term=Surrealism%20at%20100%3A%20A%20Reading%20List&amp;utm_campaign=jstordaily_09192024&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>&quot;Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.&quot;</p><p>Australian writer and poet Joseph Furphy died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1912.</p><p>He is is widely regarded as the &quot;Father of the Australian novel&quot;. He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life (1903), regarded as an Australian classic.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Furphy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Furphy"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_F</span><span class="invisible">urphy</span></a></p><p>Books by Joseph Furphy at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1205" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1205"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1205</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>I&#x27;m keeping reading Shklovsky. This paragraph is not that funny for a non-Russian ear, but it reminded me of two great anecdotes I want to share. (01/03)</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/prose/" rel="tag">#prose</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/russian/" rel="tag">#russian</a> <a href="/tags/poets/" rel="tag">#poets</a> <a href="/tags/anecdotes/" rel="tag">#anecdotes</a></p>

<p>“Laidlaw is the melancholy heir to Marlowe. Reads like a breathless scalpel cut through the bloody heart of a city’ – Denise Mina</p><p>William McIlvanney discusses and reads from his LAIDLAW trilogy at Dundee Literary Festival 2013, in conversation with Russel D. McLean</p><p>@bookstodon <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K879j3KVFvo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=K879j3KVFvo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=K879j3</span><span class="invisible">KVFvo</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/crimefiction/" rel="tag">#CrimeFiction</a> <a href="/tags/williammcilvanney/" rel="tag">#WilliamMcIlvanney</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1857.</p><p>Eugène Sue&#x27;s extended fiction Les Mystères du peuple is condemned on charges of offending morals and religion, the author having died on August 3.</p><p>According to Umberto Eco, parts of Sue&#x27;s book Les Mystères du peuple served as a source for Maurice Joly in his 1864 work Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, a book attacking Napoleon III and his political ambitions.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Sue" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Sue"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A</span><span class="invisible">8ne_Sue</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1186" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1186"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1186</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Unveiling Lady Scott<br>Walter Scott, French Influence &amp; Transcultural Connections<br>Free online from 26 Nov–10 Dec 2025</p><p>Céline Sabiron sheds new light on Walter Scott’s work by investigating the French influence of his wife, Charlotte Charpentier &amp; argues that she, as a knowledgeable art &amp; literature enthusiast, greatly assisted him in his work as his secretary, amanuensis, &amp; proofreader</p><p>@litstudies </p><p><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/unveiling-lady-scott/312FE027B29B98DEA13AEFD0A39EA095" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cambridge.org/core/elements/unveiling-lady-scott/312FE027B29B98DEA13AEFD0A39EA095"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cambridge.org/core/element</span><span class="invisible">s/unveiling-lady-scott/312FE027B29B98DEA13AEFD0A39EA095</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/romanticism/" rel="tag">#romanticism</a> <a href="/tags/walterscott/" rel="tag">#WalterScott</a></p>

<p>Polish poet, dramatist, painter, sculptor, and philosopher Cyprian Norwid was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1821.</p><p>Considered a &quot;rising star&quot; in his youth, Norwid&#x27;s original, nonconformist style was not appreciated in his lifetime. Partly due to this, he was excluded from high society. His work was rediscovered and appreciated only after his death by the Young Poland movement of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprian_Norwid#" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprian_Norwid#"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprian_</span><span class="invisible">Norwid#</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>Burns and Nature<br>21 January, Glasgow – free</p><p>An exploration of Robert Burns’s relationship to nature, told through poetry, spoken word &amp; film.</p><p>This event, presented in partnership with the Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow, will examine Burns’s relationship to place, his life as a farmer, &amp; his perspective on humanity’s relationship to the natural world.</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/burns-and-nature-tickets-1975112411391" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/burns-and-nature-tickets-1975112411391"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/burns-a</span><span class="invisible">nd-nature-tickets-1975112411391</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/robertburns/" rel="tag">#RobertBurns</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/environmentalism/" rel="tag">#environmentalism</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a></p>

<p>Computer’s First Christmas Card: a Poetry/Coding workshop<br>4 December, Mitchell Library, Glasgow – free</p><p>Inspired by Edwin Morgan’s poem ‘The Computer’s First Christmas Card’, attendees at this Poetry/Coding workshop will code a festive poem &amp; leave with a handmade Christmas card! There will also be a chance to see some items from the Edwin Morgan collection.</p><p>No experience of coding or creative writing necessary.</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/computers-first-christmas-card-a-poetrycoding-workshop-tickets-1969671946815" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/computers-first-christmas-card-a-poetrycoding-workshop-tickets-1969671946815"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/compute</span><span class="invisible">rs-first-christmas-card-a-poetrycoding-workshop-tickets-1969671946815</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/glasgow/" rel="tag">#Glasgow</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/coding/" rel="tag">#coding</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a></p>