FREE LECTURE: British Writers in the Revolutionary 1790's

British Writers in the Revolutionary 1790's

This is part of an ongoing investigation by John Beer into the reactions of British writers to the events in France. In this lecture, he shall be talking partly about major writers such as Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth – and particularly about the reactions in rural Somerset to Coleridge’s stay in their midst. John Beer will also discuss the particular problems of women in the changing culture, referring particularly to Helen Maria Williams and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Profile: John Beer is one of the preeminent scholars and critics of English romanticism. Renowned for its great depth and immense scholarship, Beer's work has shed light on some of the most complex and vital poets – Wordsworth, Blake, and Coleridge – and revealed the power of poetry to transform the thought of its day through its visionary pursuit of truth.

John Beer is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse. He has written Coleridge the Visionary (1959); The Achievement of E.M. Forster (1963); Blake's Humanism (1968); Blake's Visionary Universe (1969); Wordsworth and the Human Heart (1979), Wordsworth in Time (1979); Coleridge's Variety: Bicentenary Studies (ed.) (1974); Coleridge's Poetic Intelligence (1977); and Romantic Influences: Contemporary-Victorian-Modern (1994). Professor Beer has also edited Coleridge's Aids to Reflection (Collected Coleridge) (1993) and his Poems (1993).



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