Seamus Heaney and Latin Poetry, lecture by Stephen Harrison

Join us for a talk by Professor Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford) on Seamus Heaney and Latin Poetry. With a drinks reception at 5.00pm, Stephen's lecture will begin at 5.30pm. Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College where he was the Tutor of Latin from 1987-2020. He has published widely on Latin literature and its reception. Recent publications include The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII (Bloomsbury, 2024), [with Regine May] Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and Psyche since 1650 (OUP, 2024), and [with Lorna Hardwick and Elizabeth Vandiver] and Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen: Classical Connections (OUP 2024). Among many other projects, he is currently working on a collection on Seamus Heaney’s translation of Aeneid 6 (for OUP).