How illustrations reshaped the Romantic legacy (with Tom Mole)
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When we think about the generation before us, we might feel that their cultural touchstones aren't relevant today. But Tom Mole argues that the literature of the past only survives because the next generation find new ways to make it relevant. In the Victorian era, new illustrations for the previous generation's poetry helped update the image of writers like Byron and Wordsworth in ways they couldn't even have imagined.
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