Welcome to CRECS

The Cardiff Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Seminar supports research and stimulates discussion into literary and cultural studies between 1680 and 1840 in Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy, and among its partners. Its aims are to promote a welcoming, informal and innovative platform open to students and researchers within the institution and beyond.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth