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John B. Van Sickle
(Brooklyn College)

Three Encounters

Arranged by U. S. Embassy (Warsaw) & Consulate (Krakow) in Poland

February-March 2008


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Copernicus Monument



Homage to Hopper:
Poems on Paintings
 A Reading
with Marginalia on
The Poetry of Solitude

(selected & introduced
by Gail Levin, Rizzoli)

2008-02-25
Institute of British & American Literature
University of Silesia
Sosnowiec

Silesia StudentsSilesian Faculty

 

First Book by Frost:

A Modern Poetic Sequence
in a Classical Tradition

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 2008-02-26
Department of English Studies
Jagiellonian University
Krakow

2008-02-28
Department of English Philology
Lodz University
Lodz  



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Lodz University
(Lodz)

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JagiellonianJagiellonian University
(Cracow)
Scene from Greco-Roman Pastoral


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Exile & Return in Caribbean & Classical Epic: From Homer to Derek Walcott's Omeros

[for syllabus
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a course growing from my earlier work on the pastoral or bucolic poetry of Virgil & its tradition, , also from an earlier course on pastoral forms & transforms , & leading to my current work on Derek Walcott.
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Kyoto, June 2003
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Scene from Greco-Roman Pastoral Classics 15W &
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Mythemes of Minding:
In Search of Pastoral Tradition 

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