Michael Plygawko Sullivan has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at Harvard University for 2015-16. As Rodney G. Dennis Fellow in the Study of Manuscripts, he will examine the notebooks and draft poems of Alfred Tennyson located in Harvard’s Houghton Library.
Continue ReadingThe Places of Early Modern Criticism, 23rd-24th March 2015
‘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 […]
Continue ReadingThe Word-Hoard: Robert Macfarlane on Rewilding our Language of Landscape
We have forgotten 10,000 words for our landscapes, but we will make 10,000 more, given time and inclination. Dr Robert Macfarlane examines the plethora of words we use for weather and landscape in The Guardian.
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Continue ReadingDr 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.
Continue ReadingIrene Samuel Memorial Award
Young Milton: The Emerging Author, 1620-1642 (Oxford University Press), ed. Edward Jones, to which Faculty members Christopher Tilmouth and Andrew Zurcher both contributed chapters, has won the Milton Society of America’s Irene Samuel Memorial Award for 2013.
Continue ReadingShakespeare Poetry Day 2014
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 ReadingResounding Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Symposium
Resounding Dylan Thomas Saturday 11 October 2014 – Faculty of English 2014 marks the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth. As such, it provides an ideal opportunity to reevaluate a body of work that has for too long precluded scholarly consensus. The sticking point has always been a biographical one. Thomas’s untimely death in New York in 1953 […]
Continue Reading‘Besom ling and teasel burrs’: John Clare and Botanising
The John Clare Symposium was held at the University’s Botanic Gardens on Tuesday 23rd Septermber 2014. The symposium was a project of the Centre for John Clare Studies, set up by Dr Paul Chirico, Dr Mina Gorji and Dr Sarah Houghton-Walker, to mark the 150th anniversary of Clare’s death. Events
Continue ReadingWhither Political Theatre? – Cambridge Conference for a Poetics of Critical Political Theatre in Europe
Whither Political Theatre? Cambridge Conference for a Poetics of Critical Political Theatre in Europe. 19-20 Sept, St John’s College. The conference was sponsored by the British Academy as a BA Regional Event. Organising Committee: Dr Eva Urban, Dr Drew Milne, FBA Professor John Kerrigan. Keynote speakers included John Kerrigan & Eva Urban, from the Cambridge English Faculty, […]
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