Faculty of English

The title of the article is Eliot’s “Polish plains”  and it is part of ‘The Eliot We Need’ Special Forum of The T.S. Eliot Studies Annual. Juliette Bretan is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, researching depictions of Poland and East Central Europe in twentieth-century anglophone and Polish literature.

Professor Pettitt gives her Plenary Lecture, entitled ‘Speed, Relay and the Digital Empire’, on Thursday 19 June, at ‘Speed and Acceleration‘, the 2025 INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies) Conference.  INCS takes place in Genoa, Italy, from 18-20 June.

Link to this morning’s broadcast (30 May 2025): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0lfdfyw. You can listen to other episodes to which Prof. Hurley has contributed on: beauty, dogs, silence, gratitude, ancestors, creation, relics, fighting, euthanasia, reality, humour, discrimination, service.

The book is a critical edition of the first ever translation of a Roman history into English, from a manuscript in the Cambridge University Library, and is printed here for the first time. Link to further information about the book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-coniuracion-of-lucius-sergius-catelina-9780198976387?cc=gb&lang=en& Link to further information about the Early English Text Society: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~eets/membership.html  

The first post is  ‘Five Questions: Ross Wilson on Percy Shelley in Context‘ on the blog of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS); the second is on ‘Fifteen Eighty Four‘ the blog of Cambridge University Press, featuring current news and commentary from Cambridge authors and staff.