POETRY PLACES 5 - ELIOT’S LITTLE GIDDING DAY at Ferrar House, Little Gidding, Cambridgeshire with Graham Fawcett
Tuesday 3rd July 2012, from 10.00am for 1030am-430pm
What brought T S Eliot to the village of Little Gidding in 1936, and why, 6 years later, did he decide to make it the setting and presiding spirit of the fourth and last of his Four Quartets ? On location in Ferrar House and Little Gidding Church, Graham Fawcett will seek to recreate Eliot’s own experience of this place, and point to clues in the poet’s life and work and his choice of moods and images, to help unravel the mysteries of Eliot’s Little Gidding. Highlights of the morning and afternoon of this summer’s day will feature close reading, one by one spaced through the day, of the five ‘movements’ (including the one closely indebted to Dante), of what is widely believed to be Eliot’s finest work.
The cost of the day will be £37.50 for the teaching sessions (or £27.50* concs. for 18 years & under, senior citizens, full-time students, unwaged – ES40 – and disabled) and a further £22.50 for coffee, a two-course lunch, and afternoon tea at Ferrar House. For rail-travellers who would like to share a taxi from Huntingdon Rail Station OR Sawtry Green to Little Gidding, please say so on your form. Make your cheque, for £60 or £50 concessionary rate, payable to Graham Fawcett and send it with the completed booking form (download from http://www.grahamfawcett.co.uk/events.htm#lg37a0 to him at 2 Harpur Mews, London WC1N 3PE. You will then be sent your ticket(s) for the day.
Enquiries to: Graham Fawcett on grahamkfawcett@googlemail.com or 0207 405 3997. Details of Graham Fawcett’s work are available at www.grahamfawcett.co.uk.
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T S Eliot Festival – 7th-8th July 2012
Speakers to include: Lord Harries and Paul Muldoon (More details to be added later.)
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Nicholas Ferrar Day – 1st December 2012
Service in church, followed by coffee, talk, light lunch and the AGM of the Friends of Little Gidding. (More details to be added later.)
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REGULAR EVENTS AND MEETINGS:
Evensong at St John’s Little Gidding in 2012 - 29th July 2012 at 6 pm. 30th September 2012 at 6 pm. (These are usually followed by tea at Ferrar House.)
Poetry evenings – 2012 - May 13; June 13; July 13; August 15. All at 7.30 at Ferrar House.
Sprituality Group – every second Friday of each month; 12 noon for Eucharist in Church followed by light lunch at Ferrar House. (Cost £5)
Companions: June 8th, 2012 10 am; Quiet day with the Friends of Little Gidding
