In the Presence of Poetry: Field Notes from the Cowper & Newton Museum
The Victoria Women's Association Presents: In the Presence of Poetry: Field Notes from the Cowper & Newton Museum
Where: Alumni Hall
About this Event: In a collaborative meeting with the Friends of Victoria University Library, Alex Hernandez, principal of Victoria College, notes that in the summer of 2022, two graduate research assistants accompanied the speaker on a visit to the Cowper and Newton Museum in Olney, U.K., the one-time home to celebrated poet William Cowper. There, they were granted unprecedented access to the place and objects that occasioned his greatest work, The Task (1785). This talk offers what amounts to field notes that experiment in relaying that experience, not only offering a description of poetry’s entanglement in material objects, but also reflecting critically on their time together—in the presence of Cowper’s home and landscape, alongside other literary tourists for whom place underwrites a deeper engagement with author and poem alike.
About the Speaker: Learn more about Principal Alex Hernandez.
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