Coleridge: Science & Poetry

Friday September 3

 6.00pm           Welcoming drink at the bar

 7.00pm           Dinner

 8.15pm           A.C.H Smith: A Box of Frogs (A Light Tragedy)

Saturday September 4

7.00am                        Early morning walk*

8.30am                        Breakfast

9.30am            David Fairer: Erasmus Darwin's Loves of the Plants (1789) Erotic Botany and its Implications.

10.45am          Coffee

11.15am          Sharon Ruston: The Poetry and Science of S.T. Coleridge and Humphry Davy

12.45pm          Lunch

 2.00pm           Guided Walk*

 5.30pm           Richard Holmes: Coleridge and Davy:

Dangerous Gases

6.45pm                        Bar open

7.15pm                        Dinner

8.45pm            Postlude

Sunday September 5

 7.00am           Early morning walk*

 8.30am           Breakfast

 9.30am           Neil Vickers: Coleridge and the Medical Imagination

10.45am          Coffee

11.15am          Tim Fulford: Coleridge and the Age of the Earth

 1.00pm           Lunch

 2.30pm           Afternoon free for walks and/or visit to Nether Stowey & Coleridge Cottage

4.00pm                        Tea (by arrangement)

*Those taking part do so at their own risk