Hooray for you!!!!

Can we lengthen your name?

Its revival seems, well, timely. I should have advertised earlier but have been ill, & didn't know if I'd be able to make it. Very glad to say I will. I'm looking forward to talking about distraction, attention, & the necessity of boredom, now and in the seventeenth century.

Scholars from Oxford, & poets & writers of more independent attachment, met to discuss & write theology, poetry, & natural knowledge. It thrived in the 1620s & 1630s, & was abrupted by the Civil Wars, in which Cary died: its eirenicism extinguished in the brute polarisation of the mid-century.

The new Great Tew Circle revives the c17th reading & discussion group, engine of thinking on reasonable religion, peaceable controversy, & natural philosophy, wch met at the manor house of Lucius Cary, & involved Jonson, Hobbes, the Earl of Clarendon, Edmund Waller, Abraham Cowley, &c.

Louise Curran wrote a really great review of the new Cambridge ed of SCG in Cambridge Quarterly recently, 'Richardson's Punctilios': academic.oup.com/camqtly/arti...

If the theme of the group can just be the items in the group, listed, then any four things is a group. I like the chutzpah, though it makes the game a lot harder.

It is true that my copy of _Johann Heinrich Alsted, 1588-1638_ is unlikely to inspire an article on How Kathryn Murphy Read Her Hotson.

It's possible you told me this in 2004.