The Department of Literatures in English presents the Wendy Rosenthal Gellman Lecture on Modern Literature:

On the Poetry of Walking, a talk considering "walking" poems by William Cowper and William Wordsworth, among others, in relation to thinking, time, distance, and the imagination.

Susan Stewart is a poet, critic, and translator and the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities, emerita, at Princeton University. Her new book of poems, Bramble, and her co-translation of Milo De Angelis's Last Stops of the Night Journey have just appeared. Her previous books include Columbarium, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and Cinder: New and Selected Poems, as well as the prose works The Ruins Lesson, The Poet's Freedom, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, and On Longing.  She is a former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, a MacArthur Fellow, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Her Clarendon Lectures, Poetry's Nature, were published by Oxford University Press in 2024.

Q & A to follow lecture.

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Masking is encouraged.

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The Gellman Lecture, featuring a distinguished scholar of modern literature, was established by a generous gift from Wendy Rosenthal Gellman ‘81, who majored in English at Cornell.