Calendar of
literature sessions
Image: Jeremy Peters, Newnham College
2025 Summer Course
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 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 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 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 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 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 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.