Raising the Dead: Pre-Raphaelite poetry and painting in the spirit world
5:30pm tea, coffee and cake 5:45-6:45pm presentation followed by questions
Raising the Dead: Pre-Raphaelite poetry and painting in the spirit world.

Many members of the second generation Pre-Raphaelites practiced various kinds of spiritualism in which the distance between the living and the dead was temptingly close. Rossetti was one of those and his short ‘bogie’ sonnet sequence ‘Willowwood’ has always resisted any complete critical explanation. But if placed in the context of some of his contemporary art works and both are related to his passion for spiritualism then the group takes on a new and curious meaning
Date: 1 December 2016, 17:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details: Mawby Pavilion, Rewley House
Speaker: Professor Barrie Bullen
Organiser: Graduate School (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: gradschool@conted.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Recommended
Booking url: https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/about/arts-and-humanities-seminar-raising-the-dead-pre-raphaelite-poetry-and-painting-
Booking email: gradschool@conted.ox.ac.uk
Cost: Free
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Shabaz Hussain