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Saturday 24 June 2000
A CECS Symposium at the King' Manor to commemorate the bi-centenary of the publication of The Farmer's Boy (1800) by Robert Bloomfield
THE 'PEASANT' POET
Organiser: Simon White
PROGRAMME
10.30 Introduction by John Barrell (University of York)
10.40 John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent University): 'Brother Bards and Fellow Labourers: Bloomfield in his Letters'
11.25 Mina Gorji (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford): 'Rude Forefather? Echoes of The Farmer's Boy in a Sonnet by John Clare'
12.10 Lunch: York Theatre Royal
1.15 Donna Landry (Wayne State University, Detroit): 'Social Ecology, not Romantic Ecology: The Green Languages of Ann Yearsley, Charlotte Smith, Robert Bloomfield, and John Clare'
2.00 Tim Burke (St. Mary's University College): 'The Shoemaker's Holiday: Carnival Inversions in Bloomfield's The Banks of Wye (1811)'
2.45 Tea and Coffee
3.00 Simon White (University of York): 'The Farmer's Boy: The Poet vs The Patron'
3.45 Tim Fulford (Nottingham Trent University): 'Cowboys and Cow Medicine: Bloomfield and Edward Jenner' University), Simon White (University of York), Tim Fulford (Nottingham Trent University).