Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), was a born revolutionary, according to Robert Graves. Drawing on the poet’s letters as well as his literary output, Rudolf considers what Rosenberg might have achieved had he survived the war and reflects on the work of Rosenberg’s Jewish contemporaries, the modernist poets Avigdor Hameiri and Uri Zvi Greenberg, both of whom fought in the Austro-Hungarian army, and who wrote in Hebrew. Rudolf concludes with the opening scene from his work-in-progress, Nobody’s Romeo, set in the poets’ corner of heaven. It features dialogues between Rosenberg and Keats among other poets. We’ll show illustrations, some little known or hitherto unknown to illustrate this lecture.

Anthony Rudolph ran Menard Press for fifty years, specialising in literary translation, being the first to publish Primo Levi’s poems in English. Rudolph last talked about Rosenberg in Nottingham in 1979, so it’s time to do it again

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