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“Thanks To Shakespeare” with CHRISTOPHER RICKS

November 9, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Free

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.

Details

Date:
November 9, 2017
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
http://www.bu.edu/archives

Organizer

Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University
Phone:
617-353-3696
Email:
archives@bu.edu
Website:
www.bu.edu/archives

Venue

Boston University, Mugar Library First Floor, Richards-Roosevelt Room
771 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215 United States
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Phone:
6173532821

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.