Patrick's Poetry with Dr. Simon Avery

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Parsonage Unwrapped: Patrick's Poetry with Dr. Simon AveryFriday 28 June 2019
19.30 h

Three decades before the Brontë sisters published Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, their father Patrick began his own literary career with three volumes of the verse: Winter Evening Thoughts (1810), Cottage Poems (1811) and The Rural Minstrel (1813).  In this talk, Simon Avery reconsiders Patrick Brontë's position as a poet and explores what this neglected body of work tells us about Patrick's social conscience, his relationship with his Irish background, and his sense of the Importance of literature in the turbulent political environment of the early nineteenth century.
Simon Avery is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Westminster.  His publications include Elizabeth Barret Browning, Selected Poems of Mary Coleridge and Thomas Hardy: A Readers Guide. He is currently writing a book on the Brontë family and politics.