The John Keats Bicentennial Conference

Houghton Library, Harvard University (7-9 September 1995)

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Conference Schedule:

• 1:00 pm: Conference sign-in at Longfellow Hall
  
• 3:00 pm: Welcome and opening remarks (Richard Wendorf, Robert Ryan, Ronald Sharp)
  
• 3:30 pm: Panel: The Endurance of Keats (M.H. Abrams [chair], Walter Jackson Bate, Andrew Motion, Aileen Ward)
  
• 6:00 pm: Reception at Houghton Library and viewing of an exhibition of books and manuscripts from the Library's Keats Collection
  
• 7:30 pm: Dinner at Eliot House
  
• 8:30 pm: Poetry Reading at Eliot House (Eavan Boland, Robert Hass, Michael Harper, Philip Levine, Andrew Motion)
  

Friday, September 8

• 8:30 am: Light breakfast at Longfellow Hall
  
• 9:00 am: Paper session: Recent Perspectives on Keats
  Wolf Z. Hirst (moderator)
  Charles Heywood, "Putting the 'High' Back in High School: Teaching
  Keats's 'To Autumn"
  Ronald Sharp, "Keats and Friendship"
  George Steiner, "Keats in Translation"
  
• 10:30 am: coffee break
• 11:00 am: Panel: Keats and the Critical Tradition
  Robert Ryan (chair)
  David Bromwich, Terence Hoagwood, Susan Wolfson
  
• 12:30 pm: Lunch break
  
• 2:15 pm: Slide Lecture: Keats in Rome (Bathsheba Abse)
  
• 2:45 pm: Panel: Keats and Modern Poetry
  Stuart Sperry (chair)
  Michael Harper, Philip Levine, David Perkins
  
• 4:15 pm: coffee break
  
• 4:45 pm: Paper session: New Directions in Keats Studies
  John Barnard (moderator)
  Hermione de Almeida, "Keats, Evolution, and Dream Theory"
  Christopher Ricks, "Keats and Allusion"
  Grant Scott, "Keats in the 1990s"
  
• 7:00 pm: Reception and dinner at Eliot House
  Keynote address: Jack Stillinger
  

Saturday, September 9

• 8:30 am: Light Breakfast at Longfellow Hall
  
• 9:00 am: Paper session: Keats Among his Contemporaries
  Beth Lau (moderator)
  Elizabeth Jones, "The Cockney School of Poetry: Keats in the Suburbs"
  Debbie Lee, "Poetic Voodoo: Keats in the Possession of African Magic"
  Donald Reiman, "Keats as a Third-Generation Romantic"
  
• 10:30 am: coffee break
  
• 11:00 am: Panel: The Art of Teaching Keats
  Helen Vendler (chair)
  Walter Evert, Leon Waldoff, Brenda Walton
  
• 12:30 pm: Lunch break
  
• 2:30 pm: Paper session: Keats and History
  Greg Kucich (moderator)
  Robert Kaufman, "The End of Negative Capability"
  Tilottama Rajan, "Keats, Literature, and 'the absence of the work'"
  Nicholas Roe, "The Social Force of Negative Capability"
  
• 4:30 pm: Panel: Keats and the Art of Poetry
  Alicia Ostriker (chair)
  Eavan Boland, Robert Hass
  
• 6:30 pm: Concluding remarks
  

Principal Sponsors:
Keats-Shelley Association of America
National Endowment for the Humantities
Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation
Acriel Foundation
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