Courses and Seminars
Upcoming courses and seminars we are offering.
New Courses for 2015 Finalised!
Here is a PDF containing the details of all the remaining courses to run for 2015 in The Melbourne Literature Seminars. Final Timetable for Further 2015 Courses Recommended Texts All courses to take place in Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane. … Continue reading
Introduction to Old English II
We’ll be picking up where we left off before Christmas, with a bit more of Ælfric’s Colloquy to get us into the grammatical mood, then on to other prose texts, ending (I hope) with Bede’s famous account of the poet Cædmon. … Continue reading
The Poetry of W.H. Auden
Auden can sometimes seem a bit overshadowed by his many illustrious contemporaries and peers, who included T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens. Yikes! Yet his poems are suffused with a warm intelligence and genial humanity, expressed in a … Continue reading
The MLS Refectory: First Sessions in 2015
The MLS Refectory is a lunch-time series of one-hour poetry sessions that meets on Wednesdays 1-2 pm in Ross House. The 2014 sessions were a great success I’m very much hoping to see continue. Bring your lunch, your curiosity and … Continue reading
New Sessions for 2014
The Melbourne Literature Seminars Refectory 12 individual 1-hour sessions beginning 6 August An initial series of 12 1-hour luncthime sessions, each dedicated to a poem or poems by one poet. The fee for each will be $10 payable on the … Continue reading
Texts for New Courses August/December 2014
Text for Malory’s Morte D’Arthur If you’re interested in this course and want to get a jump on the reading, I suggest you acquire the following edition: Le Morte D’Arthur: the Winchester Manuscript, ed. Helen Cooper. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998. ISBN 9780199537341 … Continue reading
Three New Courses Booked In
“I’m Nobody! Who are You?”: the Poetry of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson remains one of America’s best-loved poets. And for good reason. Her deceptively simple and accessible poems reveal a mind of extraordinary acuity, and a wit biting and playful … Continue reading
Anyone for Lunchtime Sessions?
I’ve had requests that The Melbourne Literature Seminars offer one-hour midday sessions in Ross House, either 12-1 or 1-2, that would allow people who work in or around the CBD to spend their lunch-hours discussing poetry. I’d love to give … Continue reading
Dante’s Divine Comedy and Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf
Happy New Year! I have had confirmation of bookings for the rooms for these two new courses, which are now ready to begin. Details below. If either appeals and you’d like to check out how our sessions tick, feel free … Continue reading
Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf
In 2000, Nobel-Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney published one of the most powerful translations of the poetic masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf. It is, in my experience, the translation that gives readers unfamiliar with the poem’s very old form of … Continue reading