Conférence du 22 septembre juin 2014. Les soirées de la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal consacrées à la poésie vivante sont une occasion de voir, écouter et goûter autrement les textes de grands poètes de langue française. Chaque soirée conçue comme une rencontre entre le poète et un intervenant, chaleureux connaisseur et passeur de son œuvre, fait partager une ex ... Show More
Sep 2023
Episode 170: Printers, Plague and Poets
In this episode, we examine the connection between poetry and plague in the early 1590s. An outbreak of the recurring sickness contributed to Shakespeare’s early career as a poet, and that poetry likely included his many sonnets. We also examine how an old acquaintance from Shake ... Show More
1h 17m
Feb 2023
Curtis Runstedler, "Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Curtis Runstedler's book Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempl ... Show More
58m 21s