Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
Description
British Academy LIterature Week
Though T S Eliot had no children, he stated that paternity was the theme of his poem 'Marina'. Robert Crawford's lecture re-examines Eliot's importance, and concentrates on 'Marina' as one of his finest poems. The lecture listens closely to the poem's sound-textures, and argues that this work in which a man invokes his daughter can be read as part of Eliot's wider engagement with children and with childlessness.