Year | Lecturer | Topic |
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1888 | Sir Leslie Stephen | English Literature |
1889 | Sir Edmund Gosse | The poetry of the second quarter of the eighteenth century; Literary criticism of the age of Queen Anne; The development of naturalism in English poetry 1780-1820 |
1890 | John Wesley Hales | The Elizabethan period with special reference to Spenser and Shakespeare |
1893 | Edward Dowden | Inaugural - The sentimental movement - The Romantic movement - Revivals of the past - Naturalism as opposed to romance - The political movement |
1894 | Edward Dowden | The French Revolution and English Literature |
1895 | Edward Dowden | Elizabethan literature - Puritanism in English Literature |
1897 | Duncan Crookes Tovey | The structure of Shakespeare’s plays in special connexion with their sources |
1898 | Duncan Crookes Tovey | Some English historical plays of Shakespeare |
1898 | Walter Raleigh | Letter writers - Milton and his age - Courtesy literature |
1900 | Henry Charles Beeching | The history of lyrical poetry in England |
1900 | Alfred Ainger | Chaucer |
1901 | Alfred Ainger | Shakespeare as a humorist |
1902 | Sir Sidney Lee | Foreign influences on Elizabethan Literature |
1902 | Barrett Wendell | The literary history of England in the seventeenth century |
1904 | Frederick Samuel Boas | The academic drama |
1906 | Alexandre Beljame | Shakespeare as criticised in France from the time of Voltaire |
1907 | William Everett | The English orators of the eighteenth century |
1909 | Arthur Woollgar Verrall | The Victorian poets |
1911 | Walter Raleigh | The prose writers of the Romantic revival |
1912 | William Paton Kerr | Chaucer |
1914 | Adolphus Alfred Jack | Chaucer |
1915 | Adolphus Alfred Jack | Spenser |
1921 | John C.ann Bailey | Life and art in English poetry |
1922 | Walter John de la Mare | The art of fiction |
1923 | Lascelles Abercrombie | The idea of great poetry |
1925 | John Middleton Murray | Keats and Shakespeare |
1926 | Thomas Stearns Eliot | The metaphysical poetry of the 17th century |
1927 | Edward Morgan Forster | Aspects of the novel |
1928 | André Maurois | Aspects of modern biography |
1929 | Desmond MacCarthy | Byron |
1930 | Herbert Edward Read | Wordsworth |
1930 | Harley Granville-Barker | Dramatic method |
1932 | Edmund Blunden | Charles Lamb and his contemporaries |
1934 | George Stuart Gordon | Shakespearean comedy |
1935 | Ernest de Selincourt | Wordsworth |
1936 | R. W. Chambers | English prose from Chaucer to Raleigh |
1936 | John Dover Wilson | [resigned] |
1937 | Herbert Grierson | Some of Shakespeare’s tragedies considered in relation to their sources and to one another |
1938 | Harold Nicolson | Some types of English biography |
1939 | Sir Walter Wilson Greg | The editorial problem in Shakespeare |
1940 | Etienne Henry Gilson | [resigned] |
1941 | George Malcolm Young | Religious and social ideas in nineteenth-century literature from Wordsworth to William Morris |
1942 | Lord David Cecil | Thomas Hardy, the novelist: a critical appreciation |
1943 | John Dover Wilson | The fortunes of Falstaff |
1944 | Clive Staples Lewis | Studies in sixteenth-century literature |
1945 | Raymond Mortimer | Five dissident Victorians |
1946 | Cecil Day Lewis | The poetic image |
1947 | Henry Buckley Charlton | Shakespearean tragedy |
1948 | Etienne Henry Gilson | [resigned] |
1948 | Robert William Chapman | Jane Austen: facts and problems |
1948 | D. Nicol Smith | John Dryden of Trinity College |
1949 | Helen Darbishire | The poet Wordsworth |
1951 | Frank Percy Wilson | Marlowe and the early Shakespeare |
1952 | Arthur Humphry House | Coleridge |
1953 | Bonamy Dobrée | The broken cistern: public themes in poetry |
1953 | George Macaulay Trevelyan | A layman's love of letters |
1954 | Robert von Ranke Graves | The crowning privilege: professional standards in English poetry |
1956 | James Runcieman Sutherland | English satirists |
1956 | Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (read by R.M. Ogilvie) | Art and reality |
1958 | Veronica Wedgwood | Poetry and politics under the Stuarts |
1959 | Nevill Coghill | Shakespeare's "know-how" as a maker of plays: studies in Shakespearean dramaturgy |
1960 | E. M. W. Tillyard | Some mythical elements in English literature |
1960 | Sir Robert Birley | Sunk without a trace: some forgotten masterpieces considered |
1962 | George Wilson Knight | British drama |
1963 | Louis MacNeice | Varieties of parable |
1964 | Leslie Poles Hartley | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
1965 | John Hanbury Angus | Mark Pattison and the idea of a university |
1966 | Stephen Harold Spender | Aspects of British and American imagination since 1945 |
1967 | Frank Raymond Leavis | English literature in our time |
1968 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook | Shakespeare the craftsman |
1969 | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Meredith in the English comic tradition |
1970 | Anthony Powell | [resigned] |
1971 | Lionel Charles Knights | Literature and politics in the seventeenth century |
1972 | Denis Wyatt Harding | Form and uses of rhythm in English Literature |
1973 | Frank Templeton Prince | Makers and materials : the poetry of Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Yeats, and Eliot |
1974 | William Empson | The progress of criticism |
1975 | Ivor Armstrong Richards | The eye and ear in reading poetry: some futures for criticism |
1976 | Jacob Bronowski | [died] |
1977 | Donald Alfred Davie | The literature of dissent 1700-1930: the non-conformist contribution to English culture |
1978 | David Towry Piper | Poets and their portraits |
1980 | Tom Stoppard | The text and the event |
1982 | Charles Tomlinson | Poetry and metamorphosis |
1983 | Geoffrey H. Hartman | The poetical character: four studies |
1984 | Dr Jonathan Miller | Limited visibilities, or the mind's eye |
1985 | C. Henry Gifford | Poetry in a divided world |
1986 | Geoffrey Hill | The enemy's country |
1987 | Richard Rorty | Irony and solidarity |
1988 | Jerome McGann | Toward a literature of knowledge |
1989 | Barbara Everett | Getting things wrong: tragi-comic Shakespeare |
1990 | Toni Morrison | Studies in American Africanism |
1991 | Christopher Ricks | Victorian lives: aftersight and foresight |
1992 | Sir William Golding | [resigned] |
1992 | Derek Walcott | [resigned] |
1993 | Bernard Williams | Three models of truthfulness |
1994 | V. A. (Del) Kolve | The God-denying fool in medieval art and drama |
1995 | Alison Lurie | The Children's Books of John Masefield |
1996 | Stephen Orgell | Imagining Shakespeare |
1997 | Donald McKenzie | William Congreve |
1998 | Carlo Ginzburg | No island is an island: four glances at English literature in world perspective |
1999 | John Hollander | The substance of shadow: a darkening trope in poetic history |
2000 | Sir Peter Hall | Exposed by the mask: four lectures on form in drama |
2001 | Helen Vendler | Poets thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats |
2002 | Adrienne Rich | Six meditations in place of a lecture; poetry reading with commentary |
2003 | Anne Barton | The Shakespearean Forest |
2004 | Peter Brown | Treasures in Heaven: Religious giving in late Antiquity |
2005 | Rowan Williams | Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth-Century Artist |
2006 | Seamus Heaney | Stance and Distance: A Reading with Commentary |
2007 | Elaine Scarry | Imaging Colour |
2007 | Frank Kermode | Some Lesser-Known Aspects of E. M. Forster |
2009 | Roy Foster | ‘Words Alone are Certain Good’: Literature, Nationalism and Politics in nineteenth-century Ireland |
2009 | Roger Chartier | Forms Affect Meaning |
2011 | Susan Wolfson | Temporal disjunctions: relating personal history |
2012 | Quentin Skinner | Shakesperean invention |
2014 | Adam Phillips | Becoming Freud: the Psychoanalyst and the Biographer |
2015 | Paul Muldoon | Yeats and the Afterlife |
2016 | Mary Carruthers | The Art of Invention |
2017 | Alice Oswald | Falling Awake: a Lecture-Reading |
2018 | Anne Carson | Stillness, Corners, The Chair (And A Dance) |
2019 | Professor Andrew Cole | Unmodernism Listen Online |
2020 | Arundhati Roy | The Graveyard Talks Back: Fiction in the Time of Fake News |
2021 | Rita Felski | Remix: on literature and theory Rita Felski will deliver the 2021 Clark Lectures - Remix: on literature and theory, at 5 p.m. on Thursdays 18 February, and 4, 11 and 18 March, via Zoom webinar; lecture details and joining instructions: https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/events/clark-lectures-2021 Lectures 18 February Remix 4 March On Recognition: Returning to Reims 11 March On Disclosure: Robert Walser 18 March On Resonance: Stoner and Theory Rita Felski is the John Stewart Bryan Professor of English, University of Virginia, and Niels Bohr Professor, University of Southern Denmark This lecture series will take place via Zoom webinars. There is no need to register in advance. Please click the link below to join the webinars: https://trin-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94879022077?pwd=ZnFwN3VhdzFtZTlmZGFFbGljcnlIUT09 |