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The CFP is online here.
Our Memorial Lecturer will be Langdon Hammer, Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English at Yale University. The title of his lecture is “Lyric, Anti-Lyric, and the Early Eliot.” He’ll be speaking not only about Eliot’s poetry but about later poets’ responses to Eliot. His talk will be framed by a consideration of lyric and dramatic monologue in the context of debates about the lyric over the past couple of decades.
Peer Seminar Leaders for our gathering this fall will be Patrick Query (“The Uses of Eliot”); Vincent Sherry (“Eliot and Revolution”); Megan Quigley & Kamran Javadizadeh (“Eliot and Epistolarity”); and Tony Cuda (“Eliot and Contemporary Poetry”). Enrollment is limited to 12 people per seminar, on a first-come basis. Please enroll by July 15th, by sending an email with the subject line “peer seminar” to tseliotsociety@gmail.com (include contact information in your email).
The conference hotel will be familiar to any of you who have attended our gatherings in St. Louis. It’s no longer called “The Parkway” (it joined the Hilton Hotels group a couple of years ago). It’s now the Doubletree by Hilton, St Louis Forest Park, at 4550 Forest Park Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63108. The link for making a reservation at the Conference Rate is here (the cutoff date for conference rates is 3 September); the room cost ($142.00 plus tax) includes a complimentary breakfast buffet and parking (at the rate of $15.00 per car per night).
