Coleridge: The Conversation Poems

Friday, September 9

            6.00pm                        Welcoming drink at the bar

7.00pm                        Dinner

8.30pm            David Fairer: Converse & Chit-Chat: Eighteenth Century Contexts

 

Saturday, September 10

            7.00am                        Early morning walk

            8.30am                        Breakfast

9.30am            Felicity James: Agreement, Dissonance, Dissent: The Many Conversations of ‘This Lime Tree Bower’

            10.45am                      Coffee

11.15am          Peter Larkin: Frost at Midnight: Some Coleridgean Intertwinings

            1.00pm                        Lunch

            2.15pm                        Guided Walk

            6.00pm                        Bar open

            7.00pm                        Dinner

8.30pm            Nigel Dodd: Settings for voice and piano with Tom Mayberry (baritone) including the Lucy Poems.

 

Sunday, September 11

            7.00am                        Early morning walk

            8.30am                        Breakfast

9.30am            Richard Gravil: The Somerset Sound

10.45am                      Coffee

11.15am          Matthew Scott: ‘The heart doth need a language’: Birdsong and the Beauty of the Ordinary in Coleridge's ‘The Nightingale’'

1.00pm                        Lunch

2.00pm                        Afternoon free for walks or visit to Coleridge Cottage

4.00pm                        Tea (by arrangement)

           

Suggested text for reference: 

Richard Holmes: Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Selected Poems, Penguin Classics 1996