POETRY & LITERATURE
Poetry on the Plaza: The Rossetti Circle
February 4, 2009
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The Harry Ransom Center presents the first Poetry on the Plaza event of the spring, The Rossetti Circle. Poet, painter, and designer Dante Gabriel Rossetti was at the heart of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Rossetti and his circle sought to reform the arts, looking for inspiration in nature. They also "discovered" Edward FitzGerald's translation, the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, in 1861 and helped set it on its path to popularity. Join readers Katharine Beutner, English graduate student and author of the forthcoming novel, Alcestis; Betty Sue Flowers, Director of the LBJ Library and Museum; Carol MacKay, Professor in the Department of English; and Molly Schwartzburg, Ransom Center Curator of British and American Literature. Enjoy listening to works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, and William Morris and follow the remarkable path of FitzGerald's translation in the new exhibition The Persian Sensation: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in the West.
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February 4, 2009Times:
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