Next term we will be reading about astronomers and astronomy. All the texts are available online; copies will also be placed in the Whipple Library box file. We meet on Mondays from 7.30-9pm in the upstairs seminar room of Darwin College.
All are welcome!
Organised by Daniel Friesner (Science Museum) and Melanie Keene (HPS).
15th October
- Dante Alighieri, Purgatory (c. 1321), Canto 4 (Please select Edition Mandelbaum, Volume Purgatorio, Canto IV)
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1674), Book 8, lines 1-197
29th October
- Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower (1882), Chapter 4
- George Meredith, "Meditation under stars" (1888)
12th November
- Leonid Andreieff, To the Stars (1905), especially Act IV. The most easily available English translation is by A. Goudiss, in Poet Lore, Winter 1907. You can find it by logging on to Periodicals Archive Online, and then searching under author "Andreieff".
26th November
- William Wordsworth, "Star Gazers" (1807)
- Walt Whitman, "When I heard the learn'd astronomer" (1865)
- Virginia Woolf, "The Searchlight" (1943)
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