Warton Lectures on English Poetry

In 1910 Mrs Frida Mond established ‘the nucleus of a fund which may hereafter be enlarged, to be devoted to the furtherance of research and criticism, historical, philological, and philosophical, in the various branches of English Literature’. One fruit of the fund was the foundation of this lecture series – named after Thomas Warton, ‘the first historian of English poetry’. The lecture was first delivered in 1910.

WARTON LECTURES  (2001 onwards)
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2011  Many-coloured Glass, Aerial Images, and the Work of the Lens: Romantic Poetry and Optical Culture, by Isobel Armstrong

2010  ‘The Reason of this Preference’: Sleeping, Flowing and Freezing in Pope’s Dunciad, by Valerie Rumbold

2009  T. S. Eliot’s Daughter, by Robert Crawford

2008  Wordsworth and the Druids, by Matthew Campbell

2007  ‘We keep the bread and wine for show’ - Consistent Irony and Reluctant Faith in the Poetry of Dannie Abse, by Tony Curtis

2006  ‘Now Shall I Make My Soul’: Approaching Death in Yeats’s Life and Work, by R F Foster

2005  The Child in Poetry: Foundlings, Lostlings, Changelings, by Margaret Reynolds

2004  Dulness and Pope, by David Womersley

2003  Voicing medieval English poetry, by Christopher Page

2002  Elegies of Form in Bishop, Plath, Stevenson, by Angela Leighton

2001  Poetry against Empire: Milton to Shelley, by Karen O'Brien