Series At Gunn Library Will Concern Poets Through History

WASHINGTON — The Gunn Memorial Library will host a lecture series on poetry beginning Tuesday, May 30, in the Wykeham Room of the library. The program will meet once monthly, on Tuesday evenings from 7 to 8:30 pm.

Kenneth Greif, a teacher of English and American literature for over 30 years at Park School in Brooklandville, Md., will lead the discussion series.

The first lecture/discussion in the series, on May 30, entitled “The Romantics, Part 1,” will focus on Wordsworth and Coleridge and two poems in particular: Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

The second portion of the series will be on June 20, continuing with “The Romantics, Part 2.” It will include a discussion of Byron, Keats and Shelley.

The third program in the series will feature “The Victorians,” with a discussion concerning the works of Tennyson, Browning and Arnold. The meeting will be on July 11.

The final session will discuss “The Moderns,” and in particular, Yeats and Eliot, on August 22.

The library is on the Green in Washington, at the juncture of Route 47 and Wykeman Road. The series is free and open to the public. Copies of the poems to be discussed will be available at the library. For further information call the library at 860/868-7586.