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“Heaney’s Great Contemporaries”: a lecture by the Poet Grey Gowrie
Grey Gowrie: “Heaney’s Great Contemporaries” (lecture and reading) Boston University Grey Gowrie was born in Dublin in 1939. Educated and professionally engaged in England and the USA, he made his home in Ireland until 1983 when he moved to the Welsh Marches. He taught English and American literature at Harvard and University College London and in 1972, on publishing his first collection of poems, exchanged an academic career for business and public life. He has been a company chairman, a…
Find out more »“Heaney’s Great Contemporaries”: a lecture by the Poet Grey Gowrie
Grey Gowrie: “Heaney’s Great Contemporaries” (lecture and reading) Boston University Grey Gowrie was born in Dublin in 1939. Educated and professionally engaged in England and the USA, he made his home in Ireland until 1983 when he moved to the Welsh Marches. He taught English and American literature at Harvard and University College London and in 1972, on publishing his first collection of poems, exchanged an academic career for business and public life. He has been a company chairman, a…
Find out more »“Heaney’s Great Contemporaries”: a lecture by the Poet Grey Gowrie
Grey Gowrie: “Heaney’s Great Contemporaries” (lecture and reading) Boston University Grey Gowrie was born in Dublin in 1939. Educated and professionally engaged in England and the USA, he made his home in Ireland until 1983 when he moved to the Welsh Marches. He taught English and American literature at Harvard and University College London and in 1972, on publishing his first collection of poems, exchanged an academic career for business and public life. He has been a company chairman, a…
Find out more »“Heaney’s Great Contemporaries”: a lecture by the Poet Grey Gowrie
Grey Gowrie: “Heaney’s Great Contemporaries” (lecture and reading) Boston University Grey Gowrie was born in Dublin in 1939. Educated and professionally engaged in England and the USA, he made his home in Ireland until 1983 when he moved to the Welsh Marches. He taught English and American literature at Harvard and University College London and in 1972, on publishing his first collection of poems, exchanged an academic career for business and public life. He has been a company chairman, a…
Find out more »A Poetry Reading Celebrating, and Featuring, David Ferry
Please join us for an evening with the esteemed poet and translator DAVID FERRY. featuring works read by friends and faculty of the Boston University Arts & Sciences Core Curriculum. Readers: Zachary Bos, Jonathan Han, Brian Jorgensen, George Kalogeris, Stephanie Nelson, Anita Patterson, Christopher Ricks, Meg Tyler, Jon Westling; with David Ferry as our final and featured reader. Hosted by Sassan Tabatabai. Free and open to the public.
Find out more »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.