Caryl Churchill's latest, "Love and Information," in New York. Churchill's career in brief.
Reviews for Far Away from the Guardian, from the Village Voice, and the New York Times.
Also from the Guardian, a photo essay celebrating Churchill's 70th birthday in 2008.
Stills from productions: at Austin Community College (act II); at Dartmouth College (act I); in Australia, from the Black Swan Theatre Company in Perth (follow internal link for a slideshow).
A series of stills from the production at the Univ. of Iowa. Hat specialists work on a production in Seattle.
Making hats at the Old Vic in Bristol, England. Domestic comfort in act one, at the Royal Court Theatre production. Several stills from the fortyfivedownstairs (Melbourne) production.
Act III: the eye of an enemy. An enemy. Another enemy. A very dangerous enemy.
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Heaney and Muldoon
The Poetry@Harvard site, now live.
Horace, Odes I:34 (the basis for Heaney's "Anything Can Happen") in Latin and in an 1882 English translation.
A map of Northern Ireland.
Heaney's 1995 Nobel Lecture.
Heaney at the London-based Poetry Archive, with audio.
Heaney reading "The Tollund Man," with audio and an image, from PBS.
From the Lannan Foundation, a long interview between Heaney and Dennis O'Driscoll, with Heaney reading his own work.
Photographs of the bog corpses described in P. V. Glob's book.
A mural in Derry remembering Bloody Sunday.
Muldoon's 1980 poem "Cuba."
Muldoon's own site. Muldoon's rock band, Wayside Shrines.
Audio that works: Muldoon reads his own poems. Muldoon reads "Meeting the British."
Muldoon at the Poetry Foundation, with a couple of poems.
All the books by Paul Muldoon (with photo).
A few of Heaney's poems at the Poetry Foundation, including the whole sequence "Glanmore Sonnets."
All the books by Heaney, with recent photo.
Helen Vendler's eulogy for Heaney.
Horace, Odes I:34 (the basis for Heaney's "Anything Can Happen") in Latin and in an 1882 English translation.
A map of Northern Ireland.
Heaney's 1995 Nobel Lecture.
Heaney at the London-based Poetry Archive, with audio.
Heaney reading "The Tollund Man," with audio and an image, from PBS.
From the Lannan Foundation, a long interview between Heaney and Dennis O'Driscoll, with Heaney reading his own work.
Photographs of the bog corpses described in P. V. Glob's book.
A mural in Derry remembering Bloody Sunday.
Muldoon's 1980 poem "Cuba."
Muldoon's own site. Muldoon's rock band, Wayside Shrines.
Audio that works: Muldoon reads his own poems. Muldoon reads "Meeting the British."
Muldoon at the Poetry Foundation, with a couple of poems.
All the books by Paul Muldoon (with photo).
A few of Heaney's poems at the Poetry Foundation, including the whole sequence "Glanmore Sonnets."
All the books by Heaney, with recent photo.
Helen Vendler's eulogy for Heaney.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Modern English poets: Auden, Larkin, Hill, Agbabi, Riviere
Visual early Auden: a Pennine valley, and a worked-out mine.
Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (1558?).
Auden's "Lullaby" (from the Academy of American Poets).
More of Auden's poems (from the Academy, with some audio). Auden reading his poems in New York City in 1972, from the New York Times. The Auden society.
The Philip Larkin society (weird-looking site design alludes to Larkin's poem "Toads"; some links don't work). Unglamorous Hull city centre, today; a road by Pearson Park, where Larkin lived, and a tiny image of Larkin's own flat. And Byrnmor Jones Library, Univ. of Hull.
Larkin's "High Windows." More Larkin poems in reliable versions online, from the Poetry Foundation.
Also from the Foundation, Geoffrey Hill; some segments from Mercian Hymns.
The Kings of Mercia.
The main page for Sam Riviere.
Riviere's Tweets.
Riviere's selected shorter works. People interview Riviere.
Patience Agbabi's performance of the works on our syllabus. Her source in Chaucer.
Agbabi's Tweets. Her brief prose autobiography. Her sporadic blog.
Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (1558?).
Auden's "Lullaby" (from the Academy of American Poets).
More of Auden's poems (from the Academy, with some audio). Auden reading his poems in New York City in 1972, from the New York Times. The Auden society.
The Philip Larkin society (weird-looking site design alludes to Larkin's poem "Toads"; some links don't work). Unglamorous Hull city centre, today; a road by Pearson Park, where Larkin lived, and a tiny image of Larkin's own flat. And Byrnmor Jones Library, Univ. of Hull.
Larkin's "High Windows." More Larkin poems in reliable versions online, from the Poetry Foundation.
Also from the Foundation, Geoffrey Hill; some segments from Mercian Hymns.
The Kings of Mercia.
The main page for Sam Riviere.
Riviere's Tweets.
Riviere's selected shorter works. People interview Riviere.
Patience Agbabi's performance of the works on our syllabus. Her source in Chaucer.
Agbabi's Tweets. Her brief prose autobiography. Her sporadic blog.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Yeats
From the National Library of Ireland, an online exhibit for Yeats' manuscripts, with portraits and other materials as well (some navigation required).
Under Ben Bulben in present-day Sligo.
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree," an early "hit."
An accurate (but ugly) text for "Who Goes with Fergus?"
The final (1925) version of "The Sorrow of Love."
Reading more of Yeats's rough drafts.
The original Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
"The Fascination of What's Difficult."
18th-century Dublin houses. The Easter Rising proclamation; the Dublin General Post Office after the Easter Rising.
"Easter 1916."
Another reliable text for "Easter 1916," with links to contemporary American poets reading parts of that poem.
Part of an important letter Yeats wrote about "Easter 1916."
Yeats's Tower. Another view.
Lissadell. At Lissadell, more images of W. B. Yeats, young and old.
John Rickard's photographs of Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee, where Yeats spent part of each year from 1918 to the late 1920s.
Most links to poems here come from the Yeats page at the Poetry Foundation, likely the only online source for reliable texts to many of these poems; Yeats' later poems are still under copyright, though these are in the public domain in the United States.
Ezra Pound's review of Yeats's Responsibilities (1914).
Some audio files: "It gave me a devil of a lot of trouble to get them into verse"; the Lake Isle.
From the Academy of American Poets, a reliable text for Sailing to Byzantium."
From the Academy, "A Prayer for My Daughter."
Byzantine art in Ravenna: mosaic of Justinian; a detail with a head.
The Stone Cottage where Yeats lived with Pound as his assistant for parts of 1913-16.
On the first appearance of "Who Goes with Fergus?" (as quoted by M. L. Rosenthal).
Some diagrams and excerpts from Yeats' A Vision. Neil Mann's elaborate explication of A Vision, with more diagrams.
Under Ben Bulben in present-day Sligo.
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree," an early "hit."
An accurate (but ugly) text for "Who Goes with Fergus?"
The final (1925) version of "The Sorrow of Love."
Reading more of Yeats's rough drafts.
The original Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
"The Fascination of What's Difficult."
18th-century Dublin houses. The Easter Rising proclamation; the Dublin General Post Office after the Easter Rising.
"Easter 1916."
Another reliable text for "Easter 1916," with links to contemporary American poets reading parts of that poem.
Part of an important letter Yeats wrote about "Easter 1916."
Yeats's Tower. Another view.
Lissadell. At Lissadell, more images of W. B. Yeats, young and old.
John Rickard's photographs of Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee, where Yeats spent part of each year from 1918 to the late 1920s.
Most links to poems here come from the Yeats page at the Poetry Foundation, likely the only online source for reliable texts to many of these poems; Yeats' later poems are still under copyright, though these are in the public domain in the United States.
Ezra Pound's review of Yeats's Responsibilities (1914).
Some audio files: "It gave me a devil of a lot of trouble to get them into verse"; the Lake Isle.
From the Academy of American Poets, a reliable text for Sailing to Byzantium."
From the Academy, "A Prayer for My Daughter."
Byzantine art in Ravenna: mosaic of Justinian; a detail with a head.
The Stone Cottage where Yeats lived with Pound as his assistant for parts of 1913-16.
On the first appearance of "Who Goes with Fergus?" (as quoted by M. L. Rosenthal).
Some diagrams and excerpts from Yeats' A Vision. Neil Mann's elaborate explication of A Vision, with more diagrams.
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