Literary Manuscript Masterclasses at Oxford

The Bodleian Library and the University of Oxford English Faculty are organizing a series of four masterclasses in the autumn term on a number of modern manuscripts. Each session a librarian and a scholar will talk about one manuscript, in the presence of the document itself. The series will start on 27 October, with Professor Kathryn Sutherland and Andrew Honey on Jane Austen's 'volume the First', followed by Professor Michael O'Neill on Shelley's Notebook containing "The Symposium", "A Defence of Poetry" and "On Love", Professor Christopher Ricks on T.S. Eliot's "Marina" and Professor Jim McLaverty on Pope's Essay on Criticism. Details and full programme are available here.