Event listings
If you have any general questions about Seven Talks on Letter Writing then please email J.S.Ellis@sheffield.ac.uk .
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Professor Hugh Haughton (York University). ‘Hearing from Poets: Letters to Poems.’ Professor Haughton will discuss the letters and poems of T. S. Eliot and other poets, including John Keats, Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore. |
Wednesday 16th February 2011 Humanities Research Institute, Gell Street, 7pm. Admission Free |
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Professor Angela Leighton (Cambridge University). ‘“Only practising how to speak to speak”: Poets and their Letters.’ Professor Leighton will discuss the work of the twentieth-century Scottish poet, W. S. Graham, and others. |
Thursday 17th March 2011 Humanities Research Institute, Gell Street, 7pm Admission Free |
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Professor Anne Fadiman (Yale University). ‘The Great Poet and the Prodigal Son: The Coleridges’ Doomed Relationship.’ |
Tuesday 3rd May 2011 St. George’s Church, Portobello, 7pm. Admission Free |
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Professor Edna Longley (Queen´s University, Belfast) ‘Epistolary Psychotherapy: The Letters of Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin.’ |
Wednesday 19th October 2011 Humanities Research Institute, Gell Street, 7pm. Admission Free |
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Frances Wilson (biographer and 2010 Booker Prize judge). ‘Reading Other People’s Mail: On Lives, Letters and Secrecy.’ |
Monday 18th October 2010 Humanities Research Institute, Gell Street, 7pm In collaboration with Off the Shelf: www. offtheshelf.org.uk |
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Professor Hermione Lee (Oxford University). ‘Thinking of You: Letters and Biography.’ |
Friday 22nd October 2010 Humanities Research Institute, Gell Street, 7pm In collaboration with Off the Shelf: www. offtheshelf.org.uk |
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Professor Paul Muldoon, (Princeton University). ‘Fire Balloons: The Letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.’ |
Tuesday 26th October 2010 St. George’s Church, Portobello, 7pm. In collaboration with Off the Shelf: www.offtheshelf.org.uk/ |
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Professor Paul Muldoon, (Princeton University). 'Poetry reading.' |
Wednesday 27th October 2010 St. George’s Church, Portobello, 7pm In collaboration with Off the Shelf: www.offtheshelf.org.uk/ |