The University of Sheffield
Letter Writing

7talks

Seven Talks on Letter Writing

  • What makes a good letter?
  • Why is reading other people’s mail so addictive?
  • Who are the great letter writers of the twentieth-century?
  • Can letter writing ever be considered a literary genre?
  • Does e-mail, texting and twittering mark the end of letter writing or its rebirth in a different form?
Come and listen to some of the world's most brilliant biographers, literary critics and writers as they explore these questions and many more in a series of public talks in 2011.
Organised by Dr Jonathan Ellis of the University of Sheffield in collaboration with the British Academy and the Off the Shelf literary festival, Seven Talks will feature the letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin, among others.

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