Calendar of
literature sessions
Image: Jeremy Peters, Newnham College
2025 Summer Course
Close Reading Emily Dickinson Course 2
Session 2 of 2. This is our second course on the great poetry of American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) which we study through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Poems about Birds
Session 1 of 2. We study some great poems about birds through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Poems about Birds
Session 2 of 2. We study some great poems about birds through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Anne Carson
Session 1 of 2. Join us to study the poetry of Nobel Laureate Anne Carson through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Anne Carson
Session 2 of 2. Join us to study the poetry of Nobel Laureate Anne Carson through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
An Introduction to Romantic Poetry. Lecture 1
Session 1 of 2. An introduction to Romantic Poetry. Live online lecture and seminar with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Image: Caspar David Friedrich, Drifting Clouds. Wikimedia Commons
An Introduction to Romantic POetry. Lecture 2.
Session 2 of 2. An introduction to Romantic Poetry. Live online lecture and seminar with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Image: Caspar David Friedrich, Drifting Clouds. Wikimedia Commons
Close Reading Women Romantic Poets
Session 1 of 2. We study the poetry of women Romantic poets through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Women Romantic Poets
Session 2 of 2. We study the poetry of women Romantic poets through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading the Poetry of Blake
Session 1 of 2. Join us to study the great poetry of William Blake through close reading. With Dr Mariah Whelan, live online.
Close Reading the Poetry of Blake. 2
Session 1 of 2. Join us to study the great poetry of William Blake through close reading. With Dr Mariah Whelan, live online.
Close Reading Wordsworth and Coleridge
Session 1 of 2. Join us to study the great poetry of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge through close reading. With Dr Mariah Whelan, live online.
Close Reading Wordsworth and Coleridge
Session 2 of 2. Join us to study the great poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge through close reading. With Dr Mariah Whelan, live online.
Close Reading Emily Dickinson Course 2
Session 1 of 2. This is our second course on the great poetry of American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) which we study through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Shelley 2 Session 2
Session 2 of 2. We study more of the great poetry of P. B. Shelley through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Shelley 2 Session 1
Session 1 of 2. We study more of the great poetry of P. B. Shelley through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Terrance Hayes
Session 2 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of American poet Terrance Hayes (b. 1971) through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
New Yorker Radio programme on Hayes.
Poetry Foundation on Hayes with some of his sonnets.
Close Reading Terrance Hayes
Session 1 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of American poet Terrance Hayes (b. 1971) through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
New Yorker Radio programme on Hayes.
Poetry Foundation on Hayes with some of his sonnets.
Close Reading Walt Whitman
Session 2 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892) through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Walt Whitman
Session 1 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892) through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Emily Dickinson
Session 2 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Emily Dickinson
Session 1 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Poems about winter
Session 2 of 2. We study some great poems about winter through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Poems about winter
Session 1 of 2. We study some great poems about winter through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Keats Session 2
Session 2 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of John Keats through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Keats Session 1
Session 1 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of John Keats through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Shelley Session 2
Session 2 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of P. B. Shelley through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Shelley Session 1
Session 1 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of P. B. Shelley through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Tennyson
Close Reading. Session 2 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of Alfred Tennyson through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Tennyson
Close Reading. Session 1 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of Alfred Tennyson through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Coleridge
Close Reading. Session 2 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of S. T. Coleridge through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Coleridge
Close Reading. Session 1 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of S. T. Coleridge through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.
Close Reading Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. Session 2
Session 2 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of friends Hughes and Heaney through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan. SOLD OUT.
Close Reading Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. Session 1
Close Reading Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. Session 1 of 2. We study some of the great poetry of friends Hughes and Heaney through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan. SOLD OUT.