{"id":5492,"date":"2017-04-29T23:17:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T03:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5492"},"modified":"2017-04-30T08:24:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T12:24:16","slug":"reading-the-romantics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/04\/29\/reading-the-romantics\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Romantics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Here follows the set-list of texts read at the Annual Core Poetry Reading, held this year on April 11, 2017 (this information is listed in the 2017 Core Almanac, part of the Core Journal published this year, Issue 26: <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/core\/journal\/xxvi\">http:\/\/bu.edu\/core\/journal\/xxvi<\/a>): <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Zachary Bos read <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=9YtzCgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA15\" target=\"_blank\">After Reading Keats&#8217; Ode<\/a> by W. H. Auden <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.john-keats.com\/briefe\/140219.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Extracts from a letter<\/a> written from John Keats to his siblings George and Georgiania; <a href=\"http:\/\/keats-poems.com\/to-fanny-keats-wentworth-place-april-13-1819\/\" target=\"_blank\">extract from a letter<\/a> from Keats to his sister Fanny<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyrikline.org\/pt\/poemas\/perhaps-if-id-nurtured-some-854#.WPCdWsorLDc.\">Poem XXIX<\/a> from <em>Midsummer<\/em> by Derek Walcott<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Archie Burnett read <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org.uk\/Assets\/Poems_Songs\/holy_willie.htm\">Holy Willie&#8217;s Prayer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/75.shtml\">To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough<\/a> by Robert Burns<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>David Ferry read <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=rOzZEgcZkxIC&amp;pg=PA80&amp;lpg=PA80&amp;dq=O+Father,+is+it+thinkable+that+any+spirits+virgil+aeneid&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=q_6gc5Y5CY&amp;sig=19yLuCpZh4RIvaO2uWNfd60eMg8&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjc4rCd2KPTAhUF4SYKHUrzC80Q6AEIJDAA#v=onepage&amp;q=O%20Father%2C%20is%20it%20thinkable%20that%20any%20spirits%20virgil%20aeneid&amp;f=false\">Lines 719-61 (Book VI)<\/a> from his own translation of Virgil&#8217;s Aeneid <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>An excerpt from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems-and-poets\/poems\/detail\/45536\" target=\"_blank\">Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood<\/a> by William Wordsworth<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Brian Jorgensen read <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span>An untitled poem usually referred to by its first line, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/there-was-child-went-forth-every-day\" target=\"_blank\">There Was a Child Went Forth<\/a>, by Walt Whitman <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><a href=\"http:\/\/animus-inviolabilis.tumblr.com\/post\/121167020347\/false-popularity-friedrich-h%C3%B6lderlin-translated\">False Popularity <\/a>by Friedrich Holderlin, translated by Michael Hamburger<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>George Kalogeris read <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span>His own version, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitewhalereview.com\/issues\/1.1\/poetry\/kalogeris\" target=\"_blank\">Days<\/a>, of <a href=\"http:\/\/gutenberg.spiegel.de\/buch\/hugo-von-hofmannsthal-gedichte-1003\/31\" target=\"_blank\">Terzinen ber Vergnglichkeit<\/a> (Tercets on Transience) by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>An original poem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poems\/detail\/56404\">Rilke Rereading Holderlin<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Anita Patterson read <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emersoncentral.com\/poems\/rhodora.htm\">The Rhodora<\/a>by Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/May-day_and_other_pieces\/Translations#196\">The Exile (from the Persian of Kermani)<\/a>, also by Emerson<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Christopher Ricks read <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems-and-poets\/poems\/detail\/45316\">The Star<\/a> by Jane Taylor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems-and-poets\/poems\/detail\/44986\">January 1895<\/a> by Mary Robinson<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/summer-is-ended\/\">Summer Is Ended<\/a> by Christina Rossetti<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=z94-AAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA79\">Villeggiature<\/a> by E. Nesbit<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Sassan Tabatabai read <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems-and-poets\/poems\/detail\/52298\">We Are Seven<\/a> by William 13 Wordsworth<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/resources\/learning\/core-poems\/detail\/44475\">La Belle Dame sans Merci<\/a> by John Keats<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Meg Tyler read <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span>The first one and a half lines from <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=49RRAQAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA83\">John Clare&#8217;s Don Juan<\/a>, and Clare&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ADA3AAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA186\">The Badger<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Jon Westling read <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poems\/detail\/12631\">General William Booth Enters Into Heaven<\/a> by Vachel Lindsay<br \/>\n(Bonus: here is a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SnbGruNIV1o)\">musical setting<\/a>of this poem, which Prof. Westling told the assembled guests about before he read.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here follows the set-list of texts read at the Annual Core Poetry Reading, held this year on April 11, 2017 (this information is listed in the 2017 Core Almanac, part of the Core Journal published this year, Issue 26: http:\/\/bu.edu\/core\/journal\/xxvi): Zachary Bos read After Reading Keats&#8217; Ode by W. H. 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