George Herbert and Emily Dickinson

FAIN: FS-50343-13

University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)
Richard Strier (Project Director: March 2013 to December 2014)

A five-week seminar for sixteen college and university faculty to study the poetry of George Herbert and Emily Dickinson.

This seminar will provide its participants with the opportunity to study, in detail and in relation to each other, two of the greatest lyric poets in English, George Herbert (1593-1633) and Emily Dickinson (1831-1886); it will allow the participants to investigate a number of literary and spiritual modes as they move from seventeenth-century England to nineteenth-century America.