Classics and Poetry Now – Workshop

Institute of Classical Studies Senate House, London, United Kingdom

We are excited to announce our forthcoming workshop in the reception of the ancient Greek and Roman classics in 20th- and 21st-century poetry. This one-day workshop will be a collaboration with Classics And Poetry Now (CAPN), an international project designed to foster long-term, collaborative research in the field, led by Prof Lorna Hardwick (Open University), and the Institute of […]

Jennifer Ingleheart, A Shropshire Lad in Ancient Rome: A. E. Housman and Ancient ‘Homosexuality’

Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, United Kingdom

Studies of A. E. Housman assume a strong divide between his life as a poet - whose verses suggest his homoerotic desire - and as a well-respected Professor of Latin. Professor Ingleheart explodes this myth by exploring in detail Housman's longest and most frank writing on homosexuality: his Praefanda, an article aimed at scholars, written […]

Elizabeth Vandiver, ‘“The best Greek poets used a kind of free verse”: the Imagists, vers libre, and ancient metrics’

Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Professor Elizabeth Vandiver (Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin and Classics, Whitman College, USA) Abstract: The use of vers libre was one of the hallmarks of Imagist poetry; one of the six principles of Imagism printed in the Preface to the 1915 anthology Some Imagist Poets (edited by Amy Lowell) said, ‘We believe that the individuality of a poet may […]

International Cavafy Summer School: Cavafy and Antiquity

Onassis Library, Athens Athens, Greece

Application deadline: Wednesday 31 January 2018 The International Cavafy Summer School is a major international annual scholarly event organised by the Cavafy Archive and the Onassis Foundation, the first such regular event to be devoted exclusively to Cavafy and the impact of his work. Following the inaugural Summer School that took place in July 2017, […]

‘On Translating Sappho’, Josephine Balmer

University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Research Seminar, Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham. Arts 201 on the Edgbaston Campus.  Everyone is welcome!

Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Reading 2018: Alice Oswald

Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

The Bristol Poetry Institute, in association with the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition, is delighted to invite members of the public and university alike to this year's annual poetry reading. We are very pleased to announce that this year's reader will be Alice Oswald. The event will comprise of a poetry reading […]

Queer loss, queer Classics: A.E.Housman’s ‘lost country’

Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

Jennifer Ingleheart talks about how A E Housman's losses and unrequited love as a queer man were reflected in his poetry. Queer people have often experienced losses, such as missing the opportunity for marriage and children, the pain of unrequited love, and the potential loss of reputation and liberty. A. E. Housman (1859-1936) writes movingly […]

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