School of English lecture series Hilary semester 2015 Engaging Poems Mar 17 ----

In this ten-week lecture series members of the School of English and invited guests will Mar 24 Stephen Matterson: Emily Dickinson, ‘There’s a certain slant of light’ introduce a poem and provide a close reading/analysis of it. The poems will be chosen Nicholas Grene: W. B. Yeats, ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus’ from a wide range of styles, periods and places, and will provide the audience with fresh insights into the poem as well as an understanding of how poetry analysis works: the Mar 31 Philip Coleman: Dennis O’Driscoll, ‘Dear Life’ lecture will be followed by audience discussion. Julie O'Callaghan, TBA

Course Directors: Nicholas Grene, Stephen Matterson How to apply: Return the application form with the fee to: The Secretary (Evening Venue: Jonathan Swift Theatre, Arts Building TCD at 7 p.m. Lectures), Oscar Wilde Centre, 21 Westland Row, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2. Phone: 01-896 2885 email: [email protected] Jan 20 Introduction (Nicholas Grene and Stephen Matterson) Paula Meehan: W. B. Yeats, ‘The Cat and the Moon’ Fee: €50 for the entire series. Individual lectures are €6 each. Concessionary rates for the full series will be €35 or individual lecture €5 each. Cheques/Bank Drafts should be made Jan 27 David O’Shaughnessy: Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘The Mask of Anarchy’ payable to TCD No. 1 Account. Darryl Jones: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’ Application for Evening Lecture Series Feb 3 Amanda Piesse: Thomas Wyatt, ‘They flee from me that sometime did me seek’ Nicholas Grene: John Donne, ‘Air and Angels’ Name: ______

Feb 10 Chris Morash: Elizabeth Bishop, ‘At the Fishhouses’ Address: ______Brian Cliff: Paul Muldoon, TBA ______Feb 17 Brendan O'Connell: Geoffrey Chaucer ‘If no love is, O God, what fele I so?’ Helen Conrad-O'Briain: anon, ‘The Ruin’ Contact phone number/Email: ______

Feb 24 Alice Jorgensen: Anon, ‘The Wanderer’ Gillian Groszewski: Ted Hughes, ‘A Motorbike’ Lectures you would like to attend (all / numbers): ______

Mar 3 Stephen Matterson: Robert Frost, ‘Directive’ Fee Enclosed: Gerald Dawe, William Carlos Williams, ‘Asphodel, that Greeny Flower’ ______Office use only Mar 10 Tom Walker: Richard Murphy, ‘Sailing to an Island’ Cash / cheque: Aileen Douglas: Eavan Boland, ‘Re-reading Oliver Goldsmith’s Deserted Date received: Village in a Changed Ireland’