Spin, lies and deception: Coleridge’s triumph on Malta, talk for Coleridge in Wales Festival
Talk by Barry Hough, Portsmouth University and author of works on Coleridge’s life on Malta, in the Mediterranean war zone 1804-5, where he found friendship and employment as diplomat and administrator with Sir Alexander Ball, one of Nelson’s Band of Brothers. Coleridge was many things in his life other than the romantic poet for which he is most famous. He was philosopher, journalist, literary critic, lecturer, one of the best talkers of his age, and notorious opium addict. But one of the lesse
7.30pm
Tickets £4
From Monmouth Museum tel 01600 710630 and Chepstow Museum tel 01291 625981
This talk is being held in Monmouth, which is home to one of the major Nelson collections, at Monmouth M
Shire Hall, Agincourt Square, Monmouth, Monmouthshire NP25 3DY
Wed 25 May 2016