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W.H. Auden’s “The Shield of Achilles”

General Programming

dateOctober 17, 2007 timeWednesday, 7:00pm EDT location The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University
Notes
  • Free and open to the public
  • No registration necessary
  • First come, first seated
  • Photo ID required for entry
Several headshots of W.H. Auden and large gold metalwork

An evening of Auden at the Heyman Center: two major poets and a remarkable scholar of poetry spend an evening with a volume of poems (The Shield of Achilles) by one of the greatest of poets of the twentieth century.

Participants
  • Edward Mendelson Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities Columbia University
  • Richard Howard Professor of Practice, School of the Arts Columbia University
  • Susan Stewart Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities: Professor of English Princeton University