Summer Conference

Coleridge Conference 2024, 29 July-2 Aug, Grasmere

The 2024 Coleridge Conference took place at Dove Cottage/The Jerwood Centre, Grasmere, 29 July-2 August 2024. This was the first time in its history that the Coleridge Conference has taken place in the Lakes, where Coleridge wrote ‘Dejection’ and The Friend.

The conference followed the BARS Conference in Glasgow and preceded the Wordsworth Summer Conference in Rydal. The keynote speaker was Nigel Leask, Regius Professor at the University of Glasgow and author of The Politics of Imagination in Coleridge’s Critical Thought and Stepping Westward.

Numbers are limited for the annual conference, so we advise booking your place early. Delegates may need to find their own place of residence, depending on the venue, though we will lunch and dine together each day.