Past Clark Lectures

Year	Lecturer	Topic
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