By Anna Mercer
The Wordsworth Conference Foundation announces
The 47th Wordsworth Summer Conference
Monday 6 August to Thursday 16 August
Rydal Hall, Cumbria
Call for Papers and Bursary Applications
Keynote Lectures, 2018
Gillian Beer Madeleine Callaghan Philip Connell Jeff Cowton
David Duff Jessica Fay Mina Gorji
Theresa M. Kelley Stacey McDowell Julian North
Kimiyo Ogawa Seamus Perry Adam Potkay
Charles Rzepka Michael Rossington
The 2018 Wordsworth Summer Conference at elegant Rydal Hall will be the 47th since Richard Wordsworth’s inaugural conference gathering in 1970. This year we continue the format pioneered by Richard, mingling lectures, papers and lively academic debate with energetic fell walking, picturesque rambles, and excursions to places of Wordsworthian and Romantic interest. Upper and Lower Rydal Falls are within the grounds of the Hall, and Rydal Mount – Wordsworth’s home from 1813 until 1850 – is a two-minute walk away. In the evenings participants relax with poetry and music in the bar at Rydal Hall, wander through the terraced gardens, or stroll down to Rydal water for a moonlight …read more
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