Mirka Horova & Byron Society AGM
14th May
5.30-8.00pm, at the Art Workers Guild, London [ezcol_1half] 
[/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] Ticket Prices:
£5.00 for Members; £6.00 for Students;
£7.00 for Non-Members.
AGM at 5.30 pm
Lecture at 7.00 pm
Dinner from 8.00 pm
Book now:contact@thebyronsociety.com
It hardly comes as a surprise that Martin Garrett’s 2010 Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Byron includes an entry on ‘swimming’. Even in the Romantic age, increasingly defined by ‘hydromania’, popular seaside bathing, the intensity of Byron’s engagement with water, both as swimmer and poet, is unprecedented.
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It hardly comes as a surprise that Martin Garrett’s 2010 Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Byron includes an entry on ‘swimming’. Even in the Romantic age, increasingly defined by ‘hydromania’, popular seaside bathing, the intensity of Byron’s engagement with water, both as swimmer and poet, is unprecedented. From the famous feat in imitation of Leander in 1810 to the race from the Lido and along the Grand Canal in 1818, Byron’s prowess as a sea-swimmer and his narrative talent to relate these epic feats in vibrant prose remains unchallenged, as his famous February 1821 letter to Murray from Ravenna detailing the Hellespont swim and the Venice race, printed in The London Magazine in April 1821, attests. Equally compelling and poignant are his poetic depictions of swimming and swimmers – Manfred’s and Jacopo Foscari’s childhood reminiscences, Childe Harold’s final stanzas to the Ocean, the seascape intricacies of The Island. Perhaps most significant, however, is the pervading presence of marine metaphors and tropes that navigates the entirety of Byron’s oeuvre, revealing an idiosyncratic poetics. This talk will address the many ways in which Byron’s life-long relationship with the sea is reflected in his writing.
DETAILS
[ezcol_1third]Where:
Art Workers Guild
6 Queen Square
Bloomsbury
London WC1N 3AT
See Map
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third] When:
AGM at 5.30
Lecture 7.00-8.00pm
There will be a dinner for those who wish to join, details will be confirmed closer to the time.
[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third_end] Tickets:
£5.00 for Members
£6.00 for Students
£7.00 for Non-Members
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Please let us know if you would like to attend, email contact@thebyronsociety.com.
Artwork: JMW Turner "Study of Sea and Sky" c.1805