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Romantic Science - Annual Wordsworth Lecture

Date: 24 February 2009 Time: 6.00 pm

The 2009 Wordsworth Lecture

Speaker: Richard Holmes

Richard Holmes is the leading biographer of the Romantic period, author of Shelley: The Pursuit (which won the Somerset Maugham Award) and Coleridge: Early Visions (which won the Whitbread Prize). His 'stellar collective biography' The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science was published last year to wide acclaim, described as 'elegant … fascinating … entrancing' (Sunday Telegraph) and 'a revelation … thrilling' (Independent).

Event Details: Tuesday 24th February, 6pm, George Fox Lecture Theatre 1, Lancaster University

Event website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/events/seminars_readings.html

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Who can attend: Anyone

Further information

Organising departments and research centres: English and Creative Writing, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Keywords: Creative writing, English, Romance (genre)