‘The places of early modern criticism‘, an interdisciplinary gathering of literary and art historical scholars convened by Dr Gavin Alexander (English), Dr Emma Gilby (French), and Dr Alexander Marr (History of Art). Supported by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), the Faculty of English and the Faculty of History […]
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Dr Gavin Alexander Keynote at ‘Speaking Pictures: Poetry, the Arts of Discourse and the Discourse of the Arts in Early Modern England’
Dr Gavin Alexander presented a keynote: ‘Of proportion poetical: order, form, decorum, and analogy in early modern poetry and poetics’, at a one-day colloquium ‘Speaking Pictures: Poetry, the Arts of Discourse and the Discourse of the Arts in Early Modern England’, Universidad de Huelva, Spain, 31 October 2014.
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Thursday 23 October 2014 10AM to 5PM Drama Studio, Faculty of English Full Programme Dr Gavin Alexander leads a group of lecturers from the Faculty of English who will read aloud Shakespeare’s complete poetry to mark the 450th anniversary of his birth. Shakespeare’s plays are performed every day throughout the world. His poems are read […]
Continue ReadingEnglish Renaissance Poetics: Online Bibliography of Texts and Sources
English Renaissance Poetics: An Online Bibliography of Texts and Sources – a £20k Cambridge Humanities Research Grants funded project lead by Dr Gavin Alexander ran from January to September 2014. ‘There has been too little engagement among literary scholars with early modern ways of thinking about imaginative literature. One major contributory factor is the difficulty […]
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Dr Gavin Alexander appeared on BBC Radio 4’s The Sonnet and the Sword on Sunday 11th August 2013. The Sonnet and the Sword looks at Elizabethan courtier poetry, its influence on literature and its context in the wider world.
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