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SEMINAR SERIES: RURAL RIDERS AND RADICALS

January 18, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - March 22, 2018 @ 1:00 pm
The Museum of English Rural Life, The Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road
Reading, Berkshire RG1 5EX United Kingdom + Google Map
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Black and white image of a man riding a grey working horse in a field with haystack in the background

A series of lunchtime talks organised by the Department of English Literature and the Museum of English Rural Life, in celebration of their ongoing collaborations. Events in the series feature (alternately) writers with a national profile, and academic authors showcasing new and exciting research. 18 January - Alexandra Harris - The marsh and the visitor […]

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12:00 pm

John Clare and Place: Simon Kövesi

February 15, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Museum of English Rural Life, The Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road
Reading, Berkshire RG1 5EX United Kingdom + Google Map
Free
Simon Kovesi looks straight at the camera, with a grey hair, beard and moustache. You can only see his head and shoulders, he is wearing glasses and he is smiling.

15 February:  Simon Kövesi, 'John Clare and Place' The Romantic-period peasant poet John Clare is increasingly regarded as English literature's first major ecologically-conscious writer. This appreciation is built upon a idea that Clare is committed to a specific locality, a tight rural environment, and that his identification with his village of Helpston in Cambridgeshire was comprehensive and […]

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