The Romantic Child
An episode of the Gresham College Lectures podcast, hosted by Gresham College, titled "The Romantic Child" was published on November 20, 2018 and runs 49 minutes.
November 20, 2018 ·49m · Gresham College Lectures
Summary
The Romantics invented the modern idea of childhood. In the third of his lectures on the rhetoric of Romanticism, Jonathan Bate will explore how they did so, with particular emphasis on the role of children in the poetry of Blake and Wordsworth. He will also show how Wordsworth's memory of his own childhood allowed him to invent something else as well: the art of poetic autobiography. A lecture by Sir Jonathan Bate, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric 20 November 2018 The transcript and downloa...
Episode Description
In the third of his lectures on the rhetoric of Romanticism, Jonathan Bate will explore how they did so, with particular emphasis on the role of children in the poetry of Blake and Wordsworth. He will also show how Wordsworth's memory of his own childhood allowed him to invent something else as well: the art of poetic autobiography.
A lecture by Sir Jonathan Bate, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric 20 November 2018
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/romantic-child
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