Grasmere 2008: Selected papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference

A selection of lectures and papers from the 2008 Wordsworth Summer Conference

Description

Contents include four keynote lectures - on Wordsworth and Coleridge by John Beer, on Byron by Angela Esterhammer and Kasahara Yorimichi, and on Harriet Martineau by Anthony John Harding - together with Judith Thompson's 'Bindman Lecture' on John Thelwall. In shorter papers, Monika Class writes on Coleridge and Kant; Laurent Folliot, Mandy Swann, Timothy Michael, Martina Domines Veliki, Patrick Vincent and Yu Xiao on Wordsworth; and Madeleine Callaghan on Shelley.

A Feature of the book is five 'new' poems by the famous agitator John Thelwall, transcribed from the recently discovered Derby MS.

About the author

Richard Gravil, author of Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, 1787-1842, was Director of the Wordsworth Summer Conference and Secretary of the Wordsworth Conference Foundation.