The Byron Study Centre - Foundation Lectures
The Centre is pleased to present the online publication of the following Byron Foundation Lectures as electronic books.
The Byron Foundation Lectures have been taking place at the University of Nottingham since the 1920s. This page provides access to this rich resource of transcripts.
The Byron Foundation lectures have a long history at the University of Nottingham, below you can download a number of transcripts from these events.
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Byron Foundation Lectures Online
The Centre would like to thank the generosity of the authors and copyright holders who have granted permission to publish these lectures in electronic format. Funding to support the costs of digitization has been provided by the University of Nottingham Dean's Fund for the Faculty of Arts.
The Centre is currently publishing many of the Byron Foundation Lectures previously published in print form by the University of Nottingham, as well as a selection of new and previously unpublished lectures. Beginning in the first half of the twentieth century, these lectures were written and delivered by a range of world-renowned area specialists. While the majority of these lectures were on Byron, lectures have occassionally addressed other literary topics such as William Langland, Thomas Hardy and T.S. Eliot. Permission has already obtained to publish the following lectures, which will be published throughout 2007.
The list below contains lectures, lecturers and dates of delivery as recorded in the Centre's archives (where listed the institutional affiliations, position and titles of lecturers are those held at the time the lecture was delivered). The work of recovering the complete details of this longstanding lecture series is ongoing. Titles marked with an asterisk were published in print form by the University of Nottingham.
2000-Present | 1990-1999 | 1980-1989 | 1970-1979 | 1960-1969 | 1950-1959 |
1940-1949 | 1930-1939 | 1920-1929 |
2000-Present
- 2011: 'Byron's Company of Ghosts' Susan Wolfson. Professor of English, Princeton University.
- 2010: 'Tis to create, and in creating live ...': Byron's lively manuscripts. Dr Jane Stabler.
Reader in Romantic Literature, University of St Andrews.
- 2009: Malcolm Lowry 100 Years On: A View with a Byronic Perspectiv [pdf], by Drummond Bone,
- 2008: 'Addressing Time: The Poetry of Lord Byron' [pdf], by Bernard Beatty, Honorary Senior Fellow of the School of English at Liverpool, Associate Fellow of the School of Divinity at St Andrews University
- 2007: 'Byron: Stranger and Citizen of "this Breathing World"', by Professor Saree Makdisi, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2006: 'Their Hero's Story [pdf]: Dr Currie's Life of Burns, Tom Moore's Byrons Life and letters and Romantic Biography, by Professor Nigel Leask, University of Glasgow
- 2005: Embodied Cosmopolitanism in British Romantic Writing, by Professor Anne Mellor, University California Los Angeles
- 2004: The Old Moon and the New: the Romantic Legacy of the Lunar Menby Professor Jenny Uglow, University of Warwick
- 2003: Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt and Some Contemporaries, 1816, by Professor Nicholas Roe, University of St. Andrews
- 2002: Talking Pimples: Hazlitt and Byron in Love [pdf], by Professor Duncan Wu, University of Oxford
- 2001: Joanna Baillie, Byron and Satanic Drama, by Professor Isobel Armstrong, University of London *
- 2001: Byron and Women Novelists [pdf], by Professor Caroline Franklin, University of Wales Swansea *
- 2000: Byron, Chaos and Rhyme, by Tom Paulin, Hertford College, Oxford
- 2000: Innaugural Lecture of the Centre for Byron Studies: Byron and Mary Shelley and Frankenstein [pdf], by Professor Charles Robinson, Executive Director of the Byron Society of America, University of Delaware
1990-1999
- 1999: Byron: The 20th Century Liberator, by the Right Honourable Michael Foot
- 1998: Byron and Wordsworth [pdf], by Jerome McGann, John Stewart Bryan Professor Bryan Professor, University of Virginia *
- 1996: Byron and Appetite, by Professor Angus Easson
- 1992: The Grapheme Conquest: Literature and the Post-Print Age [pdf], by Professor Andrew Gurr, University of Reading *
- 1991: The Problem of Autobiography in Langland's Piers Plowman, by J. A. Burrow, Winterstoke Professor of English, University of Bristow *
- 1990: The Problem of War Poetry [pdf], by Professor Bernard Bergonzi, University of Warwick *
1980-1989
- 1989: A Day in the 'Strife' of D. H. Lawrence: Some Problems of Biography, by Professor Mark Kinkead-Weekes, University of Kent *
- 1988: Byron and the Empire in the East, by Marilyn Butler, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge *
1970-1979
- 1972: 'A Kidnapped Child of Heaven': The Poetry of Arthur Hugh Clough, by D.J. Enright *
- 1972: Lewis Carroll and the Spirit of Nonsense [pdf], by John F. Lehmann *
- 1971: Poetry in the Thirties, by Professor Roy Fuller
1960-1969
- 1969: Thomas Cooper, The Chartist: Byron and the 'Poets of the Poor' [pdf], by Philip Collins, Professor of English Literature, University of Leicester *
- 1969: Byron and English Liberty, by Raymond Williams
- 1968: Byron and the Mythology of Fact [pdf], by Anne Barton, Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge *
- 1967: The Continuity of English Poetry from Dryden to WordsworthProfessor Geoffrey Tillotson, Birkbeck College, London *
- 1966: T.S. Eliot and the English Poetic Tradition, by Helen Gardner, Merton Professor of English Literature Elect, University of Oxford *
- 1964: Byron the Best-Seller, Andrew Rutherford, University of Aberdeen *
- 1962: Byron's Dramas [pdf], by Professor Bonamy Dobrée *
1950-1959
- 1959: Byron and the Greek Tradition, by Professor T.J.B. Spencer *
- 1958: Byron and Italy, by Professor G. Melchiori *
- 1956: Two Exiles: Lord Byron and D.H. Lawrence, by Graham Hough *
- 1953: Byron's Dramatic Prose, by G. Wilson Knight *
- 1952: The Epic of Don Juan, by Professor J. Isaacs
- 1952: The Grand Manner [pdf], by C. Day Lewis *
- 1951: Byron and Shelley, by Professor D.G. James *
- 1949-50: Goethe and Byron, by Miss E. M. Butler *
1940-1949
- 1948-9: Byron and Switzerland, by Professor Heinrich Straumann *
- 1948: Byron's Lyrics, by L.C. Martin *
- 1946: The Lyrical Poetry of Thomas Hardy [pdf], by C. M. Bowra, Warden of Wadham College and Professor of Poetry, Oxford *
- 1946: Don Juan as a European Figure, by Professor S. De Madariaga
- 1944: Byron and Liberty, by Professor Vivian de Sola Pinto
1930-1940
- 1938: Byron as seen by his Contemporaries and Successors, by Desmond MacCarthy
- 1937: Byron and the Byronic, by Bertrand Russell
- 1936: Byron as a Satirist, by William Connely
- 1935: Byron in the Nineteenth Century, by Professor B. Ifor Evans
- 1934: Byron and Some Poets of his Time, by Edmund Blunden
- 1933: Byron as a Satirist, by Professor J. Wight Duff
- 1932: The Material of Fiction, by Walter De La Mare
- 1931: Poetry and Rhetoric, by Professor J. Crofts
- 1930: Byron the Unromantic, by Lord David Cecil
1919-1929
- 1929: Byronism, by Rebecca West
- 1928: Byron and Ossian, Robin Flower *
- 1927: Byron and Europe, by Prince D.S. Mirsky
- 1926: Poetic Drama in the Age of Byron, by Professor Lascelles Abercrombie
- 1925: Byron's Melancholy, by Professor R. M. Hewitt
- 1924: Byron the Poet, by H. J. Spenser
- 1923: Byron, by Professor W. McNeile Dixon
- 1922: Byron and English Society, by Professor H. J. C. Grierson
- 1921: Byron the Poet, by Alderman E. Huntsman
- 1920: Shakespeare in War and Peace, by Sir Frank Benson
The Centre would like to thank the generosity of the authors and copyright holders who have granted permission to publish these lectures in electronic format. Funding to support the costs of digitization has been provided by the University of Nottingham Dean's Fund for the Faculty of Arts.
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