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250 years after the birth of a key figure in the English Romantic movement - Sarah Jackson meets the directors of Lancaster University's Wordsworth Centre for the Study of Poetry

April 7th 1770 was the day William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumbria. As we prepare to mark this anniversary, poet and New Generation Thinker Sarah Jackson is joined by Sally Bushell, Professor of Romantic and Victorian Literature, and Simon Bainbridge, Professor of Romantic Studies – Co-Directors of The Wordsworth Centre for the Study of Poetry at the University of Lancaster to discuss new insights into Wordsworth's writing.

Sally Bushell has edited The Cambridge Companion to ‘Lyrical Ballads’ . You can find more about her research project here https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/chronotopic-cartographies/
Simon Bainbridge is the author of Mountaineering and British Romanticism

The conversation was recorded with an audience at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama at the University of Manchester. It's part of a series of discussions focusing on new academic research in UK universities produced in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UK Research and Innovation.
You can find more episodes in the collection on the Free Thinking programme website called New Research and uploaded into the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Arts & Ideas podcast feed as episodes called New Thinking.

Producer: Karl Bos

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Tue 31 Mar 2020 22:00

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