Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

528. Contemporary Poets and English Renaissance Verse

3:30–4:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon L, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare

Presiding: Joseph Foster Loewenstein, Washington Univ.

1. “‘Lest . . . the Staffe Should Falle Asunder’: Stanzaic Practices in Early Modern and Modern Poetry,” Heather Dubrow, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

2. “Mechanical Failures: Vaughan, Herbert, Oppen, and the Matter of Metaphysics,” Joseph Anthony Campana, Kenyon Coll.

3. “Courting God: Donne’s Holy Sonnets and Phillips’s ‘The Blue Castrato,’” Christina Anne Pugh, Northwestern Univ.

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