An hour of English poetry - IUM lectures

INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY OF MOSCOW https://old.mccme.ru/ium//s12/An_hour_of_English_poetry.html Together with the participants, we intend to read the verse of our favorite English language poets, classical and modern, famous and not so famous, provide the poems with Russian translations (poetic or word-for-word), perhaps make a few comments (in Russian or in English) on the poetry and on the authors . Here are the topics of a few of our gatherings: Shakespeare (sonnets and monologues) Robert Frost & Emily Dickinson Thackerey & Houseman Dylan Thomas & E.E.Cummings Nabokov & Brodsky Byron and Shelley Limericks