On Wednesday the 13th of May, Dr. Megan Cook, who is the Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Associate Professor of Literature and Co-Chair of English at Colby College,
will speak to the Baxter Society on the topic of “Blame It On Caxton: Early Modern Printers and Their Middle English Texts.” William Caxton (fl. 1475) of course introduced the printing press to England and printed the first English books. He learned printing and ran a press in Flanders, and on his return to England, he printed Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, chivalric romances like Mallory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, classical works like Ovid’s Metamorphosis, and English and Roman histories. His work is widely credited with standardizing the English language.
The meeting will be held at 6:00 pm, at the Law Offices of Bernstein-Shur, at 100 Middle St., West Tower, in Portland, Maine, and on Zoom, the link to be mailed on the day.