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Workshops

We are calling our working group sessions "workshops" for want of a better word. These sessions are the backbone of our collective work. We began with little-read nineteenth-century secondary criticism and have since ranged from poetic forms to genres to single authors. We always try to work transatlantically and our readings focus on the nineteenth century.

Approaching Poems: Historical Poetics 1895/2018 at Colby College
Waterville, Maine, September 14-16, 2018

Historical Poetics in Glasgow and Warwick (Postponed)
University of Glasgow and University of Warwick, June 21-25

Epics, Myths, Legends
Charlemont, May 28, 2016

Longfellow’s “Poets and Poetry of Europe”
Ann Arbor, Michigan, December, 2015

Madness
Belmar, NJ, April, 2015

The Dramatic Monologue
Rutgers, November, 2013

Ballads
UC Irvine and UCLA, May, 2013

Ballads
Princeton University, December 2012

Nineteenth-Century Anthologies
Rutgers, December 2011

Robert Burns
New York, May 2011

Dialect Poetry
University of Michigan, December, 2010

Robert Bridges’s ‘Milton’s Prosody’
Princeton, October 2009

Hexameters
University of Pennsylvania, February 2009

Origin Narratives
Tufts University, December 2008

Patmore and Poe
Princeton, Fall 2007

First Meeting
Rutgers, May 2007

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