Three short talks leading to a conversation with the audience by a panel featuring Christopher Ricks, J. Allyn Rosser and Paul Keegan; moderated by Edward Mendelson.
Reception to follow.
Christopher Ricks teaches at Boston University. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 2004 to 2009. His books of literary criticism include Milton’s Grand Style I (1963), Keats and Embarrassment (1974), Allusion to the Poets (2002), and True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound (2011). His editorial work includes The Poems of Tennyson (1969), The Oxford Book of English Verse (1999), and Joining Music with Reason: 34 Poets, British and American, Oxford 2004-2009 (2011). With Jim McCue, he is editing The Poems of T.S. Eliot, a full critical edition, to be published in 2013.
J. Allyn Rosser’s most recent collection of poems is Foiled Again (2007), which won the New Criterion Poetry Prize. Her two previous books are Misery Prefigured (2001) and Bright Moves (1990). She has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Poetry Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the Ohio Arts Council. She teaches in the creative writing program at Ohio University, where she edits New Ohio Review.
Paul Keegan is poetry editor at Faber & Faber in London. He has edited The Penguin Book of English Verse (2000) and The Collected Poems of Ted Hughes (2003).
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