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Speaker(s): Prof. Nigel Smith (Princeton)

"I give you to read two detailed sections of my forthcoming book, both part of an initial chapter on lyric poetry; one concerned with the reception through translation of John Donne’s verse in the 17th century Netherlands, where the response of a prominent woman poet is notable, and where the gendered nature of experience is crucial; the other concerned with libertine poetry, and where I make the case for the unusual distinctiveness of Dutch verse, and hence argue that it should be far better known, not least in an transnational literary context."
 
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Prof. Smith is the William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature at Princeton University, and is the author of studies including Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon and Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660 as well as coeditor of Politics and Aesthetics in European Baroque and Classicist Tragedy.