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Poetry

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Joseph Severn, Walter Severn and the Romantic poets: Two new arrivals in College Library

In March 1878, Walter Severn rushed to Rome to be at the bedside of his…

11 November 2020
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Rebel with Many Causes: Percy Bysshe Shelley

For those who find themselves square pegs confronted with only the roundest of holes, the…

18 September 2020
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Vespucci’s Odyssey: humanism and exploration

The wanderings of Odysseus on his return from the Trojan Wars to Ithaca have served…

30 January 2018

College Library

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A distant prospect of Eton: or, on leaving presents

The poet Thomas Gray, most celebrated for his Elegy written in a country churchyard (1751),…

29 June 2017
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‘A dainty peece of entertainment’: John Milton’s early poems

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19 December 2016

College Library

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Saving the Fourth

The College Archives tell the story of Eton. One big, ongoing story of Eton is…

04 June 2025

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