Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture 2024 | George Herbert’s Poetry and the Dissenting Tradition
- Event type
- Lecture
- Address
- IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
- Speakers
- Helen Wilcox (Professor Emeritus Bangor University)
- Event dates
- Contact
- ihr.events@sas.ac.uk Email only
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.
