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There is finally some space to breathe this week. After several weeks of lengthy texts in The Grand Remonstrance, Areopagitica, The Kings Cabinet Opened, we move to two weeks’ respite with poetry. This may prove rather a false dawn. The tasks and reading for the Early Modern Material Text MA Seminar I am shadowing are quite demanding. Prof. Anthony Mortimer will be speaking at our fortnightly Doctoral Workshop next week, with heavy preparatory reading. Earlier this year, Prof. Mortimer asked me about the paper I gave at the Origins Conference in April. Marvell’s elegy was placed within a collection of three (with Sprat and Dryden), and then replaced at a late stage by Edmund Waller’s before publication. The title of my paper, ‘One of the Three’, had been grossly misleading for that reason. As the workshop applies most directly to me, it is important that I make the most of it.
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