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# Lichfield museum to host latest Lunar Lecture
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/lichfield-museum-to-host-latest-lunar-lecture/
- Published: 2023-11-23T07:59:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-22T09:37:18.000Z
- Description: The Lunar Lecture series in Lichfield will continue next week.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: What's On, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:58, News

The Lunar Lecture series in Lichfield will continue next week.

Dr Amanda Blake Davis will speak on *The Poetics of Romantic Ecology – Erasmus Darwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley* at Erasmus Darwin House on Monday (27th November).

A spokesperson said:

> “In a well-known botanical poem, The Sensitive-Plant, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley draws upon the eroticised, emotive plants of Erasmus Darwin’s Loves of the Plants, where Darwin’s ‘chaste mimosa’ gives rise to Shelley’s loveless ‘sensitive-plant’.  
>  
> “In the lesser known Unfinished Drama, a mysterious magic plant grows, snake-like, muddling the categories of plant and animal.  
>  
> “Centring on these two poems, this talk will explore Shelley’s ecological poetics through his interrelationship with Darwin.”  
>  
> Erasmus Darwin House spokesperson

The talk starts at 7.30pm. Tickets are £6 and can be booked [online](https://erasmus-darwin-house.arttickets.org.uk/?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk).