Skip to main content

Home    Aim    Team       

30th Annual Runciman Lecture

Item

Title

30th Annual Runciman Lecture

Date

4 February 2021

Abstract

Like the shot fired at Concord, Massachusetts, in 1775, the Greek Revolution was heard around the world, and many poets, Byron and Hugo among them, fired off their own poetry in response. This lecture will turn to Greek poetic responses to 1821 – and not just at the time, but as the noise of old battles has echoed through subsequent decades of Greek experience up to the present day. The focus will be on tensions between the pen and the sword, or rather the pen and the gun, over the years since 1821: the best Greek poets have faced such tensions memorably, and in doing so have made a distinctive contribution to the world’s poetry.

(Edited abstract from organiser’s website)

Type specialization

Format

Data sets

Language

Number Of Pages - Duration

01:14:00

Linked resources

Position: 3305 (32 views)