Next month the eminent poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, will give the first of the Clare Hall Tanner Lectures for 2002.
Next month the eminent poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, will give the first of the Clare Hall Tanner Lectures for 2002.
The three-day event will take place on 4-6 February 2002.
Monday 4 February
5.00pm, Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site
Homiletic Elegy: Beowulf and Wilfrid Owen
Tuesday 5 February
4.00pm, Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site
On Pastoral: Starting from Virgil
5.00pm
On Pastoral: Eclogues in extremis
On Wednesday 6 February a full day discussion seminar will take place at Robinson College Auditorium. Seamus Heaney will be joined by Helen Vendler, Porter University Professor at the Department of English, Harvard University; Professor Neil Corcoran, Head of the School of English at the University of St. Andrews; Oliver Taplin, Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, Magdalen College, Oxford University and Jerzy Jarniewicz from the Department of English Literature at the University of Lodz.
All are warmly invited to the lectures and seminar, and the events are free of charge. However numbers are limited for the Wednesday seminar which is a ticketed event - for tickets please contact:
tanner.admin@clarehall.cam.ac.uk
or call 01223 332368 for tickets.
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