Light and the Poetics of Ambivalence
A One-Day Symposium organised by the Romantic Dialogues and Legacies Research Group, English Studies
Saturday, 23rd November 2013
Lecture Room 20, Pemberton Lecture Theatre, Palace Green
The Romantic Dialogues and Legacies Research Group in the Department of English Studies at Durham University is hosting a one-day symposium, 'Light and the Poetics of Ambivalence', on Saturday 23 November. The plenary lecture, 'Electric Lanternlight: Some Reflections on Larkin, Heaney, and Keats', will be given by Professor Nicholas Roe. His biography, John Keats: A New Life, was published recently with Yale UP.
All are welcome. Attendees are asked to register by 20 November with the Institute of Advanced Study via Mrs Audrey Bowron ([log in to unmask]). Please see poster attached for further details or contact the organisers: Professor Michael O’Neill (m.s.o’[log in to unmask]), Dr Mark Sandy ([log in to unmask]), Dr Sarah Wootton ([log in to unmask]).
Hope to see you there.
With best wishes,
Sarah
(On behalf of Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy & Sarah Wootton)
9:50-10:00: Welcome
10:00-11:15: Victorians Panel
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Organisation of Light – Dr Anna Barton (Sheffield)
‘...craving alms of the sun’: Emily Brontë’s Dark Tales – Dr Sarah Wootton (Durham)
‘Impalpable and imponderable ether’: Ruskin and the Physics of Light – Dr Peter Garratt (Durham)
11:45-1:00: Moderns Panel
Unbearable Lightness: Some Modern Instances (Auden, Stevens, Eliot) – Dr Tony Sharpe (Lancaster)
Door into the Light: The Later Poems of Seamus Heaney – Professor Stephen Regan (Durham)
‘The Changed Measures of Light’: Geoffrey Hill’s Difficult Revelations – Professor Michael O’Neill (Durham)
2:15-3:15: Plenary Lecture
Electric Lanternlight: Some Reflections on Larkin, Heaney, and Keats – Professor Nicholas Roe (St. Andrews)
3:45-5:00: Romantics Panel
Coleridge and the Divine Light – Dr Chris Murray (Durham)
‘Magical Variety Diffuse’: Light and the Poetics of Transformation in Byron and Shelley – Dr Mark Sandy (Durham)
‘In endless morn of light’: Parry, Milton and the Pindaric Ode – Professor Jeremy Dibble (Durham)
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