Acclaimed literary critic and scholar CHRISTOPHER RICKS, WILLIAM M. and SARA B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, presents the second in a new series of talks on Shakespeare.
Join him as he considers how Boston University poets, past and present, further Shakespeare’s art. Featuring poems by David Ferry, Louise Glueck, Geoffrey Hill, George Kalogeris, Alberto de Lacerda, Robert Lowell, Jill McDonough, Elise Partridge, Robert Pinsky, Anne Sexton, Derek Walcott, and Rosanna Warren.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.