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Writers Abroad  
Writers who choose to live as expatriates to join foreign causes, for a retreat, and to gain new experiences and perspectives on their native lands. The twentieth-century American poet Elizabeth Bishop's collection Questions of Travel and the new perspective that Brazil offered on her childhood in Nova Scotia. How living in Paris influenced the avant-garde work of Gertrude Stein. Lord Byron's travels to continental Europe as inspiration for the quintessential Romantic hero of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; the international interest in his work.
Program 165
  Participants
Charles Berger
Charles Robinson
Susan Winnett

 

 
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