SHAKESPEARE AND MODERN POETRY

Half day conference at Bristol University
Wednesday 27th June 2007

PLENARY SPEAKER: NEIL CORCORAN, KING ALFRED PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

Topics for any aspect of the relation between Shakespeare and 20th and 21st century poetry might include Shakespeare and Modernist Poetics; Shakespeare and the poetry of war; Shakespeare and women's verse; the Shakespearean colonial and postcolonial; Shakespeare and modern formalism; and the nature of Shakespearean influence.

Please send proposals (maximum of 300 words) for papers (20 minutes) on aspects of Shakespeare and 20th and 21st century poetry to George.E.Donaldson@bristol.ac.uk or J.M.Lyon@bristol.ac.uk by Monday 7th May 2007