Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Poetic Revolution by Sir Jonathan Bate

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When:
October 16, 2018 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
2018-10-16T18:00:00+01:00
2018-10-16T19:00:00+01:00
Where:
Museum of London
150 London Wall
London EC2Y 5HN
UK
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Gresham College
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free lecture free public lecture Gresham College Gresham lecture jonathan bate lecture Literature Lyrical Ballads poetry Public Lecture rhetoric Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Hazlitt William Wordsworth

‘The sense of a new style and a new spirit in poetry came over me’, wrote William Hazlitt, recalling the day in 1798 when he heard William Wordsworth reading aloud from Lyrical Ballads, ‘It partakes of, and is carried along with, the revolutionary movement of our age’.

Jonathan Bate will explain what Hazlitt meant and why Lyrical Ballads, the product of Wordsworth’s intimate friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is one of the greatest and most influential volumes of poetry ever written.

No reservations are required for this lecture. It will be run on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.
Doors will open 30 minutes before the start of the lecture