Vendler and Fletcher
I’ll be in Macau on Monday steering clear of the casinos, but I trust that you will attend this event in Hyde Park and send me some word-pictures:
Monday, April 9
Symposium on Poetry and Thinking
with
Angus Fletcher, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, City University of New York Graduate School
Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard University
To be discussed:
Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature*
Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats*
*Both books are available at the Seminary Coop and excerpts can also be downloaded from poetics.uchicago.edu (see the listing for the Symposium under “Spring Events”).
Moderated by Robert von Hallberg and Richard Strier. Light Dinner / Reception to follow.
5:00pm, Swift Lecture Hall, 1025 E. 58th Street.
Presented by the Program in Poetry and Poetics. For more information or If you believe you may need assistance, please contact jnklein@uchicago.edu, 773-834-8524.
April 5th, 2007 15:10
I’m in Hyde Park. I’ll wordpicture it for you.
The Hood Company
April 16th, 2007 15:22
Vendler took things real and not so real, Fletcher talks like you (I) never knew man to! Seriously she was a smiler, he was smart.
The Hood Company
April 17th, 2007 18:59
More lightning-sketch than word-picture, but appreciated nonetheless.