Marc Gotthardt

28th March, PHYSICAL

6.30pm-8.00pm, Art Workers Guild

Ticket Price: £5.00

Wine reception 6.30 pm

Lecture at 7.00 pm

Dinner from 8.00 pm

Ticket registration here.

Enquiries: contact@thebyronsociety.com

Throughout his life Byron was haunted by nightmares, but writing, in particular writing at night, promises catharsis. ‘All convulsions end with me in rhyme; and to solace my midnights, I have scribbled another Turkish story’, Byron writes to his friend Moore after a particularly disturbing episode. Marc Gotthardt traces Byron’s troubled relationship with sleep from early, evasive manoeuvres to a more appreciative stance in his later writing, where Byron goes so far as to link poesy to ‘somnambulism’.

DETAILS

Where:

Art Workers Guild

6 Queen Square

Bloomsbury

London WC1N 3AT

See Map 

 When:

Drinks 6.30-7.00

Lecture 7.00-8.00pm

There will be a dinner for those who wish to join, details will be confirmed closer to the time.

Tickets 

Purchase here

Enquiries: contact@thebyronsociety.com