Author: Will Sherwood
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How the Victorians (Re)made the British Romantics: Part 1 – Change and Transition
In a recent Guardian opinion piece, Ross Barkan announced that “the new romanticism has arrived” (2023). Likening “today’s romantics” to those of a distinctly English Romantic tradition: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron (albeit tied to Scotland), and William Blake, he imagines that their supposed fascination…
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Themes of Power: A Year Analysing the themes for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
August and September 2022 were monumental months for Tolkien fans. Love it or hate it, Amazon’s long anticipated first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power was set to premiere in September and fans on all sides were preparing themselves. The board was set, the pieces…
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Tolkien’s Chatterton and Macpherson: Mapping Forgery at the turn of the Twentieth Century
*This blog post was originally published in 2020 as an accompaniment to my journal article ‘Tolkien and the Age of Forgery: Improving Antiquarian Practices in Arda‘. It provides a biographic chronology of when the names and works of the eighteenth century forgers, Thomas Chatterton and James Macpherson, appeared in J.R.R.…
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