Grasmere 2012: Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference: Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference

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Five keynote lectures and seven papers from the 41st Wordsworth Summer Conference. In this selection of twelve specially chosen Lectures and Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference, Heather Glen writes on 'We are Seven' in the context of population studies in the 1790s, Judith W. Page on Beatrix Potter and William Wordsworth, Anthony Harding on Wordswortyh, Coleridge and the Reading Public, Pamela Woof and Suzanne Stewart on Dorothy Wordsworth's writing, Peter Swaab on Sara Coleridge as a Wordsworth critic, Heidi Thomson on Wordworth and Auden, Judyta Frodyma on Bishop Lowth and 'Home at Grasmere', Stacey McDowell on Keats and Indolence, Catherine Redford on 'The Last Man' and Romantic Archaeology, Paul Whickman on Shelley's revisions of 'Laon and Cythna', and Jason Goldsmith on 'picturesque travel, or viewing landscape by painting it. The final essay includes twelve original landscapes, mostly in colour.

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Richard Gravil was the Chairman of the Wordsworth Conference Foundation, and CEO of Humanities-Ebooks. He was the author of Wordsworth’s Bardic Vocation, 1787–1842 (2003 and 2015), and Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of Sensibility (2010). He edited or co-edited eleven volumes of which the most recent is The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth , co-edited with Daniel Robinson (2015).

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