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The 2009 Wordsworth Summer Conference.(Conference news)
January 1, 2009... Monday, July 27 to Thursday, August 6 at Forest Side, Grasmere, Cumbria Keynote Lecturers: Part 1 (27 July to 1 August) Frances Ferguson, Paul H Fry, Stephen Gill, Claire Lament, Nicholas Roe, Fiona Stafford Part 2 (1 to 6 August) Gillian Beer, Frederick Burwick, Richard Cronin, Yoko...

The "Ode to Duty" and the idea of human solidarity.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... To suggest the origins of Wordsworth's later idea of community, I will trace a progression of his thinking about the freedom of the imagination and the opposition between imagination and duty: a dominant concern of his poetry in the decade 1798-1807. I concentrate on the years 1802-04 because...

Harriet Martineau's anti-romanticism.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... On May 23, 1850, exactly a month after the death of William Wordsworth, there was a violent spring thunderstorm over Thirlmere and Helvellyn. Watching the spectacle from Ambleside, a few miles away, Harriet Martineau wrote to her friend, Fanny Wedgwood, describing the storm, and continuing:...

Atlantic exile and the stateless citizen in Irish Romanticism.(Report)
January 1, 2009... A recurring difficulty, and opportunity, in Irish studies turns on the fluid conceptualization of Ireland's geographical position across the period of colonial domination. In global terms, Ireland was variously positioned "on the edge of Europe," in Joep Leerssen's phrase, or on the cusp of...

Byron's Dying Gladiator in context.(George Byron)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... Stephen Larrabee's English Bards and Grecian Marbles (1943) marvellously unravelled and traced the genealogy of Byron's tale of the love-sick French maiden in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV, Stanza 162 (hereafter CHP, and quoted by canto number followed by stanza number), who fell in...