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Four Poems about London by Thomas Hardy: 'Coming up Oxford Street: Evening', 'The Broken Appointment', 'In St Paul's a While Ago', 'The Woman I Met'

The Thomas Hardy Society are delighted to welcome Professor Mark Ford as our guest speaker for the 2021 London Lecture. His talk will explore Hardy's depictions of various sites and encounters in four poems about London. It will pay particular attention to the biographical contexts of each poem, as well as to their use of genre and form. (Nevov)… (plus d'informations)

Exhibition

Texas Writers provides an overview of the literary accomplishments of Texas writers in a series of panels featuring portraits of authors, books, workplaces, narrative settings, and evocative quotations. Panel topics include:

Two Texas triumvirates
Katherine Anne Porter, Larry McMurtry, and Horton Foote
Sportswriters
Americo Paredes, Cormac McCarthy, and Sandra Cisneros
The Mexican Texan/Mexican American voice
El Paso writers
African Texan writers
Writers for children and youth
Poets
Urban writers
The Magazines
Screenwriters
Stories, essays, and memoirs
Elmer Kelton and John Graves
Science fiction and fantasy
Mystery writers

Texas Writers is an exhibition produced by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. (helenco)… (plus d'informations)

Reed Gochberg, Assistant Director of Studies; Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University
In conversation with: Brenda Tindal, Executive Director, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

What can the history of museums tell us about their role in American culture today? What kinds of objects were considered worth collecting, and who decided their value? Join Reed Gochberg, author of Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, September 2021) to learn about the early history of American museums, including Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. In conversation with HMSC Executive Director Brenda Tindal, she will examine how writers and visitors reflected on a wide range of nineteenth-century collections—and how their ideas continue to inform ongoing debates about the challenges and possibilities museums face today.

Presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. (HMNHpr)… (plus d'informations)