Southey before Keswick - from teenage radical to Laker Laureate

Contact

Organizer: Keswick Museum

Name: Keswick Museum

Phone: 017687 73263

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.keswickmuseum.org.uk

Address

Fitz Park
Station Road, Keswick, Cumbria,
Keswick
CA12 4NF

Price Notes

Free

Direction

Travelling from Penrith on A66, follow signs for town centre. Turn right after war memorial on to Station Road.

Details

An online talk.

Join Keswick Museum for a special online talk by Rebecca Nesvet, Professor of English at Uni of Wisconsin – Green Bay on the life of the young ‘teenage radical’ Robert Southey before he settled in Keswick. 

Before Southey lived in Keswick or dreamed of serving as Poet Laureate, he was quite the radical. The son of a linen-draper, he attended London's Westminster School, where he befriended powerful politicians' children, became entranced by the French Revolution, and rebelled against the school's authoritarian culture. Rebecca Nesvet will introduce this 'Young Southey': author, by age 20, of a number of radical poems, two neo-medieval prose romances, and an 'Essay on Romance.' We might know him as one of those Bright Young Things—had he not lived to grow up.

7.30pm 24th September.

Register via

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southey-before-keswick-from-teenage-radical-to-laker-laureate-tickets-1021610232707?aff=oddtdtcreator

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