This is a repeating event20 September 2022 5:30 pm
The English Renaissance through poems and objects
Event Details
Objects, like words, have a visible side and an essential nature, something we easily grasp, and something that escapes us. Like words, they invite us to piece them together and derive new meanings at each encounter. Yet, with their particular charisma, objects can also connect us to a time and a place in ways words can never do.
How do texts enter dialogue with artefacts and images? And how can this conversation illuminate our understanding of literature, history and culture?
In this five-part study we will explore the English Renaissance through some of its most representative poets in conversation with unusual objects from the past. In this sense our work together will be all about drawing connections: between different poetic voices, between words and objects, and between the Renaissance and us.
1. Thomas Wyatt ‘translations’: bringing Italy to Henry VIII’s court
2. Edmund Spenser’s The Fairie Queene: fantasy and horror in Elizabethan England
3. Shakespeare’s sonnets: between appearance and essence
4. Mary Wroth and Isabella Whitney: unsilencing women poets
5. John Donne’s poetry: change and invention
SALON DETAILS
- Five-session virtual study facilitated by Vivien Kogut
- Tuesdays 5:30 – 7:30pm (UK time)
- Dates: 13, 20, 27 September, and 4 and 11 October
- £150, including opening notes and resources
