Faculty of English

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Wordsworth’s Unremembered Pleasure (Oxford UP, 2020) investigates Wordsworth’s sustained interest in unnoticed, retrospective and “unremembered” pleasure. Reading Wordsworth with and against the psychoanalytic tradition of reading for unconscious trauma, it recovers Wordsworth’s distinct interest in forgotten and unremembered things, and uses romanticism’s anti-traumatic forms as a resource for rethinking wider questions of aesthetic pleasure and compositional […]

The Faculty of English and the Faculty of Divinity are holding a joint online study evening on Thursday 28th January 2021, 6pm-7pm. The event is aimed at students in Years 11 and 12 with an interest in literature, performance, theology, religion, and philosophy of religion – especially those who may be considering studying these subjects […]

This edition reprints Empson’s classic work of literary criticism and related shorter writings, with full critical and textual commentaries. For further information: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/william-empson-the-structure-of-complex-words-9780198713432?cc=gb&lang=en&

On 11 December 1920, the South African writer, novelist and intellectual Olive Schreiner, aged 65, died in her sleep in the historic port city of Cape Town. Buried in the former mining town of Kimberley, Schreiner was later to be exhumed and buried atop Buffelskop Mountain near Cradock—where she wrote at least a significant part […]

Digitizing David Jones’ letters to Jim Ede at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge as part of the David Jones Digital Archive In June 2021 a collaboration between the David Jones Research Center and the Faculty of English in the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, Kettle’s Yard Gallery and Cambridge Digital Humanities Learning Programme will begin work […]

Pembroke Fellow Dr Mark Wormald, who has closely studied how central Ted Hughes’ love of fishing was to his approach to poetry and life, first came across mention of Barrie Cooke in Hughes’s unpublished fishing diaries in the British Library. This mention prompted Dr Wormald to visit Barrie Cooke in Ireland, which is when the […]

‘Women Beat Poets and the Naropa Archive: Rewriting an American Experimental Lineage’ Filmmaker Melody London in conversation with poet Emma Gomis A Re- Interdisciplinary Network online screening/seminar (via Zoom) Tuesday 1 December, 5pm-6.30pm For further information about the event: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/29478 To register, contact: clef3@cam.ac.uk Filmmaker Melody London will screen excerpts from and discuss her current feature documentary-in-progress, the untold story of the […]

Ananya Mishra is a postgraduate student at the University of Cambridge Faculty of English and Corpus Christi College. To read the abstract of Ananya Mishra’s presentation and listen to the recording: https://www-cambridge-org.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/engage/coe/article-details/5fac6ff1c207cd0019cb1141 The Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival offers eight days of online events structured around the COP26 themes: Energy Transitions, Zero Carbon Transport, Finance, […]