Edith Hall, University College London, "How did reciting Euripides' Greek affect Ezra Pound's early poetry?"

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 6:00pm

Houston Hall, Class of '49 Theater

The lecture is free and open to the public, and is part of the Ezra Pound International Conference (EPIC) meeting in the Kislak Center, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 6th Floor, June 19-23, 2017. The theme of the 27th EPIC is "Ezra Pound, Philadelphia Genius, and Modern American Poetry: Pound and Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore." More information on this event can be found here. 

Edith is a Professor in the Classics Department and Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London. She has published more than twenty booksbroadcasts frequently on radio and television, works as consultant with professional theatreslectures all over the world, and publishes widely in academic and mainstream journals and newspapers.

Funding for this event was graciously provided by the University of Pennsylvania University Research Fund.