Pleasures of Poetry
David Thorburn
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Reading and discussion of memorable poems led by Literature Section faculty and other MIT colleagues.
A packet containing all of the poems in the series is available from the Literature Office, 14N-407 and at http://lit.mit.edu.
Web: http://lit.mit.edu/
Contact: Jamie Graham, 14N-407, x8-5629, jamiecg@mit.edu
Sponsor: Literature
John Keats
Noel Jackson
Ode on Melancholy
Mon Jan 4, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Czeslaw Milosz
Stephen Tapscott
Campo del Fiori A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
Tue Jan 5, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Julia Ward Howe
Wyn Kelley
The Battle Hymn of the Republic John Brown's Body
Wed Jan 6, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Wei Yingwu, Wei Zhuang
Alexander Wei
Wei Yingwu Lamenting My Loss Seeing Off My Daughter to the Yangs
Wei Zhuang Thousands of Knots at Heart
Thu Jan 7, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
John Donne
Howard Eiland
The Sun Rising A Valediction of Weeping
Fri Jan 8, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
TBA
Mary Fuller
Mon Jan 11, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley
Tue Jan 12, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Louise Gluck, Adrienne Rich
Joel Burges
Louise Gluck The Wild Iris
Adrienne Rich From an Atlas of the Difficult World
Wed Jan 13, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Omar Khayyam
Mark Hessler
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Thu Jan 14, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
TBA
James Buzard
Fri Jan 15, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Anne Hudson
God's Grandeur Pied Beauty
Tue Jan 19, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Seamus Heaney
John Hildebidle
Personal Helicon From Clearances 3 Follower
Wed Jan 20, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Rainer Maria Rilke
Zach Bos
Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes
Thu Jan 21, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Arthur Bahr
Whoso List to Hunt They Flee from Me
Fri Jan 22, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Alexander Pope
Alvin Kibel
An Essay on Man, epistle I
Mon Jan 25, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Matthew Arnold, Daljit Nagra
Kate Gyllensvard
Matthew Arnold Dover Beach
Daljit Nagra Look We Have Coming to Dover! Journey My Father’s Dream of Return
Tue Jan 26, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Derek Walcott
Nora K. Delaney
Selections from Omeros
Wed Jan 27, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
E. E. Cummings
Gene Moore
Come Nothing to My Comparable Soul
Thu Jan 28, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Linda Gregg
Nadia Colburn
We Manage Most When We Manage Small There She Is Whole and Without Blessing Growing Up
Fri Jan 29, 01-02:00pm, 14E-304
Latest update: 04-Dec-2009
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