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Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture 2024 | George Herbert’s Poetry and the Dissenting Tradition

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Dates

This is a past event
Time
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Location

IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Institute

Institute of Historical Research

Event type

Lecture

Speakers

Helen Wilcox (Professor Emeritus Bangor University)

Contact

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This year's lecture will focus on the work of the 17th-century devotional poet, George Herbert. One of only two surviving manuscripts of his poetry is MS Jones B 62 in Dr Williams's Library. Why did the notebook of an Anglican poet-priest end up in a nonconformist collection? This lecture will explore what it was about Herbert's poetry that appealed to Richard Baxter, Oliver Heywood and many others in the English dissenting tradition.

All welcome- This event is free to attend, but booking is required.

This page was last updated on 24 October 2024

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