Attention to Eliot (and others)

Sir Christopher Ricks, Warren Professor of the Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute, Boston University, in conversation with Hermione Lee, distinguished critic, biographer and broadcaster, currently President of Wolfson College, Oxford

Sir Christopher Ricks and Hermione Lee discuss the principles and practice of producing an edited volume of a poet's work, with special reference to T S Eliot, the works of whom Sir Christopher is currently editing (with Jim McCue).

T S Eliot's Daughter

Lecture by Robert Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature, University of St Andrews. Commentator: Marina Warner, Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex

Robert Crawford re-examines the importance of T S Eliot, concentrating on 'Marina' in which a man invokes his daughter, arguing that the poem can be read as part of Eliot's wider engagement with children and childlessness.

Listeners may find it useful to have a text of 'Marina' to hand.

The 2009 Warton Lecture