Presented by The International Poetry Society in Athens
@FREE THINKING ZONE
Keynote lecture and poetry reading by: Ginger F. Zaimis
Tuesday evening at 7.00 pm, March 10, 2020
TIME LINING
Shelley
4 Aug 1792 – 8 July 1822
Born in Sussex
Died off the coast of La Spezia age of 29
Shelley, a radical thinker, Romanticist but also considered one the finest lyric and philosophical poets as well as a foundation of the second gen Romantics. A great friend and mentor was his Father-in-law, William Godwin. In fact, most publishers & journals of his day declined publication of his brilliance for fear of being arrested for blasphemy and/or sedition. Much of his readership in the day was underground and it wasn’t until much after his death that the world reveled in his brilliance or articulate verse. Shelley’s theories on economics, morality had great influence on Marx and many others.
Byron
22 Jan 1788 – 1824
Born Scotland
Died in Messolonggi just after his 36th birthday
He was a poet, politician and revolutionary of the Greek War of Independence (1821) and prominent figure of literary Romanticism. Baron Byron, the 6th British Lord Byron, was a social rogue who was ostracized for his immoral entanglements in Victorian England went into self exile c. 1816.
The full lecture and poetry reading forthcoming on YouTube (forthcoming)
Converging Paths
Comparative Poetics
Ekphrastic Characteristics
Contemporary Poetry and more...
コメント