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The theme for 2010 was
Wordsworth & Romantic Story-Telling
LECTURERS & their topics
Richard
Gravil (Director)
on The Thorn & The Ancient Mariner
Claire Lamont (Newcastle) on
Wordsworth,
the Ballad, and Romantic Story-telling
Ken Smith (Bradford) on The Salisbury Plain Poems
Felicity James (Leicester) on Wordsworth's Churchyard Tales
Chris Simons (ICU, Tokyo) on The Idiot Boy & Peter Bell
Pamela Woof (Newcastle) on Michael
Michael O'Neill (Durham)
on Coleridge's Christabel and Keats's Lamia
David Chandler (Doshisha University) on Wordsworth's tales of Romantic
Cumbria
Guided fell walks, Daily excursions, Local
walks around Grasmere
For full details please see Programme
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The Wordsworth Winter
School devotes four full days of
lectures, discussions and readings to immersion in the poetry of
Wordsworth and his contemporaries. There are two lectures, a seminar
and a poetry reading on each of the main days. There are no
'conference papers'. Afternoons are
devoted to a special event, a walk or an excursion, exploring
Grasmere and its surroundings, in their rich winter colours.
Accommodation and all events
are at Forest Side Hotel, fifteen minutes walk from Wordsworth’s home
at Dove Cottage. The Conference Fee is £130 for Residents and £140
for non-residents (£117 or £126 for Members and Friends of the
Foundation). There is a fee of £50 for non-participants accompanying participants.
We do not
accept residential bookings for less than the full period.
The prices
(shown below) are exceptional value for five nights full board
(dinner, bed and breakfast and packed lunch) in the Lake District.
Prices in brackets include the conference fee.
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Room Style |
Single |
Shared |
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Superior
(Hotel) |
330
(460) |
280
(410) |
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Standard
(Hotel) |
300
(430) |
255
(385) |
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Standard
(Grasmere Lodge) |
270
(400) |
230
(360) |
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Basic
(not en suite) |
240
(370) |
200
(330) |
There are a limited number of residential paces for bona fide
students at £225. Please contact us about these. And there is a daily
non-resident rate of £35 (without meals, payable on the
day) or £60 with dinner and packed lunch (which must be pre-booked).
For the
Venue, the Programme, a Gallery and the Registration
form (with Google payment buttons), please see the links above and below.
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Further information may be
obtained from
The Director, Richard Gravil ◘
richardgravil@hotmail.com
The Administrator, Fiona Gravil ◘
wordsworth_conferences@hotmail.co.uk
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