Dr Chris Townsend publishes ‘Philosophical Connections: Akenside, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism’, CUP, May 2022

Dr Chris Townsend’s Philosophical Connections: Akenside, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism was published on May 2nd with Cambridge University Press, as part of their Elements series. It takes Mark Akenside’s Pleasures of Imagination as a vital link between Alexander Pope’s poetry and the Romantics. Dr Townsend draws attention in particular to Akenside’s focus on appearances and how […]

Continue Reading

Dr Stephen Turton and Professor Charlotte Brewer curate ‘The “Oxford English Dictionary” and the Public’, an exhibition at Oxford’s Weston Library

Dr Stephen Turton, along with Prof Charlotte Brewer (Oxford), has curated a small exhibition on ‘The Oxford English Dictionary and the Public’ at Oxford’s Weston Library. In order to create the OED, its first chief editor, James Augustus Henry Murray (1837–1915), wrote and received thousands of letters on the histories of words—so many that the […]

Continue Reading