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The King's Manor

Sunday 10th December 2000

A SYMPOSIUM TO ACCOMPANY THE WILLIAM BLAKE EXHIBITION AT TATE BRITAIN

NEW APPROACHES TO WILLIAM BLAKE

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Convenor: Michael Phillips


Programme

1.45: Coffee and Registration.

2.15: Jon Mee (University College Oxford and author of Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s) "Seeing is Believing: The Paradox of Blake's 'Spiritual Body'".

3.15: Saree Makdisi (University of Chicago and author of Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity) "Blake and Romantic Imperialism".

4.15: Tea.

4.30: Jim Chandler (University of Chicago and author of Wordsworth's Second Nature and England in 1819): "Blake and the Syntax of Sentiment".

5.30: Panel Discussion chaired by Michael Phillips (University of York and Joint Curator of the Blake Exhibition).

6.00: Close.