The Clark Lectures focus on English Literature topics.

2025

Professor Gordon Braden: Sappho A New Look Back

3 March The Violet Hour

6 March   All Shook Up

10 March   Fame and Fragments

13 March  Who Is Not Here      

2024

Denis Riley: A voice of the lyric?

5 March      The ‘inhuman’ aspect of lyric poetry – Watch Online

7 March    The impersonal personal – Watch online

12 March    Something there is that talks within – Watch Online

14 March   On the ‘voice of the poem’ – Watch Online

2023

Robert Pogue Harrison: Thresholds

9 May              The Thin Blue Line

11 May            Mysteries of the Phainosphere

16 May            Tellurian Symbols

18 May            On Separation

2022

Simon Armitage

3 March     Paper Aeroplane and other inner journeys

10 March   Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic and other outings

2021

Rita Felski: Remix – On Literature and Theory

18 February     Remix

4 March            On Recognition: Returning to Reims 

11 March          On Disclosure: Robert Walser

18 March          On Resonance: Stoner and Theory

2019

Professor Andrew Cole: Unmodernism

Lecture 1: Unmodernism – Hegel In The Cathedral

Lecture 2: After Feudalism

Seminar 1: Substance of Thought

Seminar 2:  Forms of Theory

Past Clark Lectures