James Watt's Leicester Walk

Date

2016-10-07

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Dahlia Publishing Ltd.

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Abstract

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a poem in which James Watt, inventor of the separate condenser, walks through contemporary Leicester (his route is from Bonners Lane and alongside the canal, taking in the Statue of Liberty on its traffic island near Sage Road). It is derived from the exercise of taking a character for a walk,

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poem, Leicester, James Watt, Erasmus Darwin, Joseph Priestley, technology, liberty

Citation

Bell.K. (2016) James Watt's Leicester Walk. in Lee, E. and Musiyiwa, A. Welcome to Leicester: poems about the city. Dahlia Publishing Ltd, pp. 84-85

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Research Institute