Lunchtime LecturEAS

Come along and hear an expert talk about a piece of poetry, prose, film or drama at lunchtime on Wednesdays. Each session will comprise a 20 minute lecture and a 10 minute Q&A. You should read the poem in advance (posted on the EAS blog). Lectures run from 1.10-1.40, Wednesday afternoons, Rutherford LT, Schuster Building.

Semester 1

Week 4

Jerome de Groot

John Milton, Sonnet 19 (‘When I consider how my light is spent’)

Week 5

Roger Holdsworth

Shakespeare, Sonnet 144 ('Two loves I have, of comfort and despair')

Week 7

John McAuliffe

Elizabeth Bishop poem tbc

Week 8

Ian McGuire

Walt Whitman, ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’

Week 9

Malcolm Hicks

Robert Browning, ‘Inapprehensiveness’

Week 10

Ian Scott

Film clips tbc

Week 11

Andrew Frayn

Richard Aldington, ‘In the Tube’ and ‘Cinema Exit’

Semester 2

Programme to be finalised, but lectures from Hal Gladfelder, Anke Bernau, Michael Sanders (on John Clare, ‘Remembrances’), Roger Holdsworth (on WH Auden, ‘Musee des Beaux Arts’), Howard Booth, Noelle Gallagher (John Dryden poem tbc).