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| JHU Turnbull Lectures Upcoming Lectures | History of Series | Past Lectures | Published Lectures Willard Spiegelman “The Poet, Born or Made?: The Case of Amy Clampitt” Monday, November 13, 2006 Renowned literary critic and editor Willard Spiegelman will give the 95th Percy Graeme Turnbull Memorial Poetry Lecture at 6:00pm on Monday, Nov. 13, in Mudd Hall Auditorium on The Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. Spiegelman's talk is titled, "The Poet, Born or Made?: The Case of Amy Clampitt." Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University and author of four books of criticism (Wordsworth’s Heroes, Majestic Indolence: English Romantic Poetry and the Work of Art, The Didactic Muse: Scenes of Instruction in Contemporary American Poetry, and How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry). He is a regular contributor to the Leisure & Arts page of The Wall Street Journal and since 1984 has been the editor-in chief of Southwest Review, the country's fourth oldest, continuously published literary quarterly. Professor Spiegelman has won three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as major grants from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations. He has been twice named an Outstanding Professor at SMU, and all of his books have been named "best faculty publication" by the university. He is also the recipient of the Perrine Prize of Phi Beta Kappa for distinguished intellectual achievement. The Turnbull Poetry Lecture, given through the generosity of a gift made in 1889 in memory of Percy Graeme Turnbull (1878-87), has brought to Homewood some of the most distinguished voices in American poetry and criticism, including Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Charles Eliot Norton, R.P. Blackmur, Northrop Frye, W.S. Merwin, Helen Vendler, John Hollander, and Harold Bloom. Texts relevant to lecture Amy Clampitt, "Losing Track of Language," "The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews," and "Nothing Stays Put" Selected Bibliography Books Articles "The Achievement of Robert Lowell" in Kenyon Review, Winter 2005
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