The Romantics and Us: A Sunday Lecture Series
The Chicago Historical Society
Clark Street at North Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60614
April 10, 17, 24, and May 1, 1988
The Romantics and Us is a public Humanities project tracing the literary, cultural, and social connections of the literature and art of the early nineteenth century to that of our own century.
The project has been planned in conjunction with the critically acclaimed international exhibition, William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism, which will be appearing at the Chicago, Historical Society, April 6-June 5, 1988.
The project will bring to the Chicago Historical Society on four consecutive Sundays some of the most distinguished poets in the land. They have agreed to talk about the relations they see between the literature of the Romantic period and the literature of our own century. Both the lecture series and the exhibition are designed for nonspecialist audiences with diverse cultural interests. Both students and teachers of literature, art, and history in the colleges and the universities should find the programs attractive.
APRIL 10, 1988 at 2 PM
Louis Simpson, SUNY-Stony Brook
"The Man Freed from the Order of Time": Poetic Theory in Wordsworth and Proust
APRIL 17, 1988 at 2 PM
John Matthias, Notre Dame University
Places and Poems: A Self-Reading and a Reading of the Self in the Romantic Context from Wordsworth to Parkman
APRIL 24, 1988 at 2 PM
John Hollander, Yale University
Poetry on Painting and Sculpture: Romantic, Modern, and Contemporary
MAY 1, 1988 at 2 PM
Robert Pinsky, University of California
Urban Landscapes, Romantic and Modern
Major support for this project was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency.
