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Monday 22nd August - 12 noon - 2pm |
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57 Maltravers Street, Arundel |
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£10 |
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The English Mail Coach |
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James McKay reads Thomas de Quincey’s largely forgotten 1849 masterpiece, The English Mail Coach – an essay in a style de Quincey described as “impassioned prose”, with a symphonic structure (including a splendidly involved fugue section). Its three parts begin with de Quincey’s fascinating historical notes on the mail coach system of his youth, turning at the hair-raising description of a near fatal crash before taking off into a delirious fusion of dreams, opium visions and memories. A must for everyone who likes Coleridge’s Ryme of the Ancient Mariner – Coleridge and de Quincey were contemporaries and sometime friends, and had many interests and preoccupations in common – but finds it faintly unsatisfying. There will be an interval during which wine and a “sandwich” will be served. |
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