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The Wordsworth Reading Group will hold four meetings in the latter half of Term 3 (2018). At these meetings we will read and discuss Wordsworth's poems "The Ruined Cottage" and The Prelude (1805 version), along with some supplementary texts. Poet, critic and former 91¸£Àû University librarian will join us for three of these meetings. If you are interested in joining the group, please come to our first meeting Thursday 7 June from 4 to 5:30pm in G.01, Millburn House. Also please send an email to Jonathan Skinner indicating your interest: J.E.Skinner@warwick.ac.uk

This group follows on the April 2018 Peter Larkin: Poetry, Phenomenology, Ecology symposium and is sponsored by Critical Environments in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies.

SCHEDULE

Meeting 1
Thu 7 June 2018, 4-5:30pm, G.01 (Millburn House)

"The Ruined Cottage"
Supplementary: Peter Larkin, "Relations of Scarcity: Ecology and Eschatology in The Ruined Cottage";
Emma Mason, "Wordsworth's Intution" in special issue of La questione Romantica: New Perspectives on William Wordsworth 
Robert Frost, ""
Kenneth Johnston, The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy (selections on the composition of "The Ruined Cottage")

Meeting 2
Wed 13 June 2018: 10:15-11:45am, G.01 (Millburn House)
The Prelude, Books II-II (1805 version)
Supplementary: (listening)

Meeting 3
Wed 20th June 2018: 4-5:30pm, G.01 (Millburn House)
The Prelude, Books III-VII (1805 version)

Meeting 4
Mon 2 July 2018: 12:30-2pm, Windmill Hill (next to Cryfield, see campus map; if you don't know where it is, meet us at the Humanities Café, ground floor Humanities building, and we'll walk over together), if inclement, G.01 (Millburn House)
The Prelude, Books VIII-XIII (1805 version)