Tess Somervell: Cowper's The Task
Channel: ChawtonHouse
Date: 2021-04-25

Dr Tess Somervell is a Lecturer in English at Worcester College, Oxford, and is Membership Secretary for the British Association for Romantic Studies. She previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leeds. Her main area of research is British poetry from 1660 to 1830, and her first book, Reading Time in the Long Poem: Milton, Thomson, and Wordsworth, is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.


Music: 'Felicity' by Scott Buckley: www.scottbuckley.com.au