{"id":98,"date":"2018-07-09T11:49:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T10:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/?page_id=98"},"modified":"2021-08-18T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T15:17:05","slug":"chatterton-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/index.php\/edward-thomas\/chatterton-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatterton Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"primary_header_title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk\/events\/lectures\/listings\/chatterton-lectures-poetry\/\">Chatterton Lectures on Poetry<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-334\" src=\"http:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scan0019-725x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scan0019-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scan0019-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scan0019-768x1085.jpg 768w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scan0019-191x270.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/h3>\n<p class=\"section_header_summary\">The Chatterton Lecture is given by an early career scholar, on the life and works of a deceased poet who had written in the English language. The lecture series was established through a bequest from E H W Meyerstein, and named after the poet Thomas Chatterton. It was first delivered in 1955.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is given every two years.\u00a0 I gave the 2018 lecture, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britac.ac.uk\/events\/\u2018i-should-want-nothing-more\u2019-edward-thomas-and-simplicity\">Edward Thomas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2018I should want nothing more\u2019: Edward Thomas and Simplicity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thu 1 Nov 2018 18:30 to 19:45<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH<\/p>\n<p>Hear the audio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk\/audio\/i-should-want-nothing-more-edward-thomas-and-simplicity\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u2018I should want nothing more\u2019: Edward Thomas and simplicity by The British Academy\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F541125510&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640&#038;secret_token=s-Ww5yw\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1008 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-1024x425.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-1024x425.png 1024w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-768x319.png 768w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-1536x637.png 1536w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-604x251.png 604w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled.png 2034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read a report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hope.ac.uk\/news\/allnews\/associate-professor-guy-cuthbertson-delivers-chatterton-lecture-.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My Chatterton Lecture was published (open access) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk\/publications\/journal-british-academy\/7\/i-should-want-nothing-more-edward-thomas-and-simplicity\"><em>Journal of the British Academy.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Abstract:<\/em>\u00a0In the years before the First World War, the \u2018Simple Life\u2019 became somewhat fashionable, and Edward Thomas (1878\u20131917) was one of those Edwardians who were attracted to simplicity, both as a way of life and as a way of writing. As a book reviewer and biographer, he greatly admired simplicity in literature (as seen in, among others, William Cobbett, W. H. Davies, J. M. Synge and Robert Frost). His prose moved towards plainness, and his poetry is beautifully simple. This simplicity has been problematic, however. His poetry is unsuited to the decoding and exegesis (which might be suited to Modernism) that universities seek to conduct. Academics studying his poetry have allowed themselves to believe that they have found complexity, hidden beneath superficial simplicity, whereas in fact Thomas is a poet of genuine bareness, clear-as-glass honesty, magical brevity and childlike simplicity. His simplicity has been popular, and seems to suit some 21st-century fashions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_713\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-713\" style=\"width: 718px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-713 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"718\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kent.jpg 718w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kent-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kent-364x270.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Edward Thomas Fellowship)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2018I should want nothing more\u2019: Edward Thomas and Simplicity <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R6dGLEUHux\">https:\/\/t.co\/R6dGLEUHux<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014 Guy Cuthbertson (@guywjc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guywjc\/status\/1024029832512921601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">It was an honour and a pleasure to give the Chatterton Lecture <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BritishAcademy_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BritishAcademy_<\/a> yesterday evening. Thank you to the British Academy, and to Robert Crawford for chairing it, and to everyone who came along to hear about Edward Thomas. (Photo by Thomas, from SCOLAR <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cardiffuni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cardiffuni<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U1w0zPkKLA\">pic.twitter.com\/U1w0zPkKLA<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014 Guy Cuthbertson (@guywjc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guywjc\/status\/1058314236429062144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Terrific Chatterton lecture on Edward Thomas and the value of simplicity in poetry by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guywjc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@guywjc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BritishAcademy_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BritishAcademy_<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/E_Hayward?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@E_Hayward<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LOfTVYg2UM\">pic.twitter.com\/LOfTVYg2UM<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014 Matthew Bradley (@Bradders953) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bradders953\/status\/1058080918437539840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Writing about Edward Thomas on Shakespeare. Found this superb lecture by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guywjc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@guywjc<\/a>. But am I alone in regarding *Feminine Influence on the Poets* as a really good, in some ways pioneering, book? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S2YEYC6ert\">https:\/\/t.co\/S2YEYC6ert<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Bate (@profbate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/profbate\/status\/1225149026221395968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1009 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-2-1024x604.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-2-1024x604.png 1024w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-2-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-2-768x453.png 768w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-2-1536x905.png 1536w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-2-2048x1207.png 2048w, https:\/\/guycuthbertson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-2-458x270.png 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chatterton Lectures on Poetry The Chatterton Lecture is given by an early career scholar, on the life and works of a deceased poet who had written in the English language. 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