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THE 2008 PROGRAMME William Wordsworth / Writing Women
'Let me thank you ... for all that you have
sung of women At Forest Side, Grasmere Monday 18 February 14.50 Coach meets 11.46 train
from Euston (arrive Oxenholme 14.46) Tuesday 19 February 09.45
Richard Gravil:
Wordsworth and Williams – an Affair of Sensibility Wednesday 20 February 09.45
Ken Smith: The
Ruined Cottage Thursday 21 February 09.45
Claire Lamont: The White Doe of Rylstone Friday 22 February 09.45
Seamus Perry: Coleridge on Women / Women in Coleridge Saturday 23 February 07.30 Breakfast Daily events (Tuesday to Friday): 07.30
Early morning walk [0700 on Wednesday] |
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Speakers Dr David Chandler, Associate Professor of English at Doshisha University, Kyoto Japan. has written copiously for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Literature Online and The Annotated Bibliography of English Literature. Dr Richard Gravil, Publisher of Humanities-Ebooks, has been involved with the Wordsworth Summer Conference since 1975. He is author of Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Literary Relations 1776-1862 (2000) and Wordsworth’s Bardic Vocation, 1787–1842 (2003). Dr Felicity James, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford is an expert on Charles Lamb, Martineau, Coleridge and Unitarian culture and a regular speaker at Romantic conferences. Professor Claire Lamont, Newcastle, is best know for her scholarly editions of Austen (Sense and Sensibility, 1970), and Scott (Waverley 1981, Heart of Midlothian 1982, Chronicles of Canongate 2002), and has published widely on Ballads, Boswell, Border culture, Clare, Collins, Keats, Johnson, Shakespeare and Swift. Professor Michael O’Neill, School of English, University of Durham, is a poet and the author of numerous major studies of Shelley and Romantic poetry including Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem (1997) and The Human Mind's Imaginings: Conflict and Achievement in Shelley's Poetry (1989). Constance Parrish is the editor of Isabella Lickbarrow: Collected Poems published by the Wordsworth Trust (2004), and has published on Lickbarrow in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) and in PN Review (2003)Dr Seamus Perry, Balliol College Oxford, is author of Coleridge and the Uses of Division (1999) and editor of Coleridge's Notebooks: a selection (2002). He is also Co-editor of Essays in Criticism. Professor Nicholas Roe, St Andrews University, is author of Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years (1988), and most recently Romanticism: An Oxford Guide (2005) and Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt (2005). Dr Ken Smith, Senior Research fellow at the University of Brasdford, is the author of a study of the early work of William Blake (1999) and of a reappraisal of William Cowper (2001), and editor of Mind and Body: Forty Years of the Pennine Poets (2007). Currently he is working on a study of Dorothy Wordsworth. Mrs Pamela Woof, University of Newcastle, President of the Wordsworth Trust, editor of Dorothy Wordsworth's The Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals and author of Reading Paradise Lost Seminar Leaders David Chandler, Richard Gravil, Felicity James Convenor & Administrator
Richard and Fiona Gravil |