The fourth annual WB Yeats Lecture will be delivered by Harvard Professor Helen Vendler at UCC on Tuesday, 21 February.
Helen Vendler, whose lecture is titled “The Yeatsian Sequence Nineteen
Hundred and Nineteen” is generally regarded as the world’s
pre-eminent critic of contemporary poetry. She has
published seminal works on the poetry of Seamus Heaney, George Herbert,
Wallace Stevens, John Keats and William Shakespeare and is currently
working on a book on WB Yeats. A former Director of the Yeats
Summer School, Professor Vendler has strong links with Ireland and a
particular affinity with Cork and UCC where she has delivered many
important and original lectures.
Sponsored by ESB International and hosted by UCC, the WB Yeats lecture
series has featured such notable international Yeats scholars as Roy
Foster and Bernard O’Donoghue. The series was inspired by the
acquisition in 2002 of a large collection of WB Yeats first editions by
the UCC Library as a gift from UCC Engineering alumnus and Yeats
scholar, Dr Eamonn Cantwell.
The lecture series is an initiative of the Library and the Department
of English at UCC. Speaking at last year’s lecture, John
FitzGerald, University Librarian described the sponsored series as
“...providing a unique opportunity to bring the finest Yeats scholars
to Cork to deliver an original public lecture on the life and work of
this major Irish literary and historical figure…”
The lecture will take place in Boole II Lecture Theatres at 3pm on
Tuesday, 21 February. Members of the public are invited to attend
and admission is free.
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