Spring Term Courses (Jan to Mar 09) : Literature
| Literary Landscapes - six illustrated lectures |
GI-08-045 |
| Dr Chris Joyce MA, PhD |
Wednesday 28 January to 11 March
(Half Term 18 February) |
| 6 meetings |
2.00pm to 4.00pm |
Whole Course: £60/Concessions £54
Each Course: £11/Concessions £10 |
Wed 28 Jan
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Wordsworth and the Lakes
This talk will look at how Wordsworth was shaped by his early experiences in his native Cumbria and how those experiences shaped his poetic career. |
046 |
| Wed 4 Feb |
Yeats and the West of Ireland
Many of Yeats's finest poems were inspired by his home, Thoor Ballylee, in Co. Galway and Lady Gregory's nearby estate, Coole Park. |
047 |
| Wed 11 Feb |
T S Eliot's America
Although Eliot became a British citizen, he remained an American at heart. His poems contain recollections of his early life in America, and his poetry can be best understood against this background. |
048 |
| Wed 25 Feb |
Ivor Gurney's Gloucestershire
Gurney was passionately fond of his native Gloucestershire and its neighbouring counties and his songs and poems are infused with this love.
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049 |
| Wed 4 Mar |
Thomas Hardy's Cornwall
After the death of Hardy's first wife, he set out to revisit the haunts of their courtship on the North Cornwall coast. The memories released a flood of poems, some of them among the most moving in the language. |
050 |
| Wed 11 Mar |
'The Country of my Heart': D H Lawrence's Nottinghamshire
Although Lawrence lived abroad for much of his adult life, his writing would always be deeply influenced by the Nottinghamshire countryside of his youth. |
051 |
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| What Happens in Hamlet? |
GI-08-052 |
| Dr Chris Joyce MA, PhD |
Saturday 4 October |
| 1 meeting |
1.00pm to 4.00pm |
£15, Concessions £13.50 |
Classical tragedy usually revolves around a character flaw in the central figure: excessive ambition, for example, in Macbeth or vanity in King Lear. But what was Hamlet's flaw? True, he hesitates to avenge his father's murder, but who wouldn't in the circumstances? We shall look again at this compelling play, which has intrigued generations of readers and spectators. |
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