The cover for Clairmont and Claire Clairmont, by Amelia Curran (1819). Hachette/Wiki Commons April 10, 2024 Clairmont tells the story of the woman Byron cast aside Angela Wright, University of Sheffield She has largely been airbrushed from history, but a new novel seeks to make Claire Clairmont visible by imagining her life after Byron.
The Morning Comes (1793-1821), by William Blake. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. March 22, 2024 William Blake’s Universe: making a European out of the poet and artist who never left England Sarah Haggarty, University of Cambridge A subtle and thoughtful show, full of shimmering connections that put Blake back in touch with European art figures and influences.
Walter Benjamin’s membership card for the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1940). Wikimedia Commons January 4, 2024 Walter Benjamin’s Illuminations: the remarkably prescient work of an intellectual truth-seeker Jamie Q Roberts, University of Sydney In his essays, Walter Benjamin sought to understand the nature of modernity. He drew on Marxism but was not contained by it, ranging across literature, art, popular culture, even Jewish mysticism.