Imagination and Insight in Twentieth Century Poetry
Friday, June 19th, 2009
9:00am - 3:30pm
In this seminar, you will consider how three great poets - Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, and T.S. Eliot - responded to the "Waste Land" of the first several decades of the twentieth century: a time in so many ways like our own early twenty-first century. What did these poets see? What did they say? Their poetry, it is suggested, is enduringly valid, as much for our generation as for their own. In this two-day course, you will listen to these three poets, but also to poets like A.E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, C. Day Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Philip Larkin. We will "hear" them, and we will try to understand what they are saying.
- Sponsor: Alumni Affairs
- Location: Wingate Hall, Room 201
- Open to: Everyone
- Price: $300.00
- Facilitator: Dr. Edwin Wilson