Yesterday:
– Discussion of Carroll/”Alice” and the definition of Fantasy
– Trip to the Eagle and Child
– Lecture on How Poetry Helped Abolish Slavery
– Tea
– Lecture on Ekphrasis and the Point of Literature
Today:
– Discussion of Tolkien, “High Fantasy” and World Building
– Trip to New Bodleian to see rare manuscript exhibition
– Side trip to Bodleian and the Sheldonian Theater
– Lecture on Diaries as Literature and Virginia Woolf
– Tea
– Lecture on a secret Elizabethan romance between two obscure Early Modern poets via letters
– A production of “Lear” in the gardens at Merton College
Now:
– Two more articles to read about Lewis before bedtime
Master Class 