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...surprising number are canonical poets: Dryden, Johnson, Cowper, Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, among others. The eclipse of their anti-slavery writings is hard to understand, especially because some, such as Wordsworth and Coleridge, wrote against slavery from their college days to the end of their lives. More than 40 women poets turn up, ranging from Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, to Anne Yearsley the milkmaid poet and other servant girls on both sides of the Atlantic. They give voice to powerful feminine perspectives on a topic that might have been seen as suitable only for the governing male elite...
MATTHEW PEARL will appear at Cambridge Wordsworth Bookstore on Monday, February 17, 2003 at 7pm for a reading and signing of The Dante Club. He will also give a lecture on “The New Florence: How Dante Came to Boston” on Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 1:30pm at the Gardner Museum in Boston, as part of the “Museum Talks” series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. See story, page...
Poets also read works of dissent at the Wordsworth Bookstore, the Grolier Poetry Shop, the Cambridge Public Library and in front of the Science Center throughout the day yesterday...
...years his friends, his admirers and many publishing houses have been urging Professor Copeland to publish a collection of his readings with critical comment. He has, however, always said "no" to every suggestion or proposal; in fact, he has not published any books since 1909, when his "Selections from Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Keats", written in colaboration with H. M. Rideout '99, appeared...
JOHN H. MCWHORTER. McWhorter, an Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC-Berkeley, is also author of the bestselling Losing the Race. He is promoting his newest work, Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority, which examines the present status of the Black American. Tuesday, Feb. 11, 7 p.m. WordsWorth Books, 30 Brattle...