The T. S. Eliot International Summer School (the link takes you to the 2024 Summer School website) brings together students and renowned scholars from around the world for a nine-day, immersive exploration of the life and work of Nobel Prize winning poet, critic, and dramatist T. S. Eliot. Held annually at Merton College, Oxford, the programme features original lectures, small-group seminars, readings by eminent writers, and special outings to theatres, libraries, and literary landmarks, including day trips to Burnt Norton and Little Gidding.
Since its founding over a decade ago, the School has assembled the most distinguished scholars of T. S. Eliot and Modern Literature. In recent years it has featured lecturers and writers such as Simon Armitage, Jewel Spears Brooker, Robert Crawford, Denis Donoghue, Mark Ford, Lyndall Gordon, John Haffenden, Barbara Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Alan Jenkins, Gabriel Josipovici, Hermione Lee, Gail McDonald, Paul Muldoon, Craig Raine, Robin Robertson and Sir Tom Stoppard.
There’s a new option this year, for those also attending the Annual Meeting at Trinity College, Dublin: the Stayover Pass for the Summer School.
The Summer School is supported by the Eliot Estate and by donations of individual patrons.
If they are not already members of the International T. S. Eliot Society, summer school attendees are eligible for one complimentary one-year membership (commencing in the fall following their time at the Summer School). Only students may take advantage of this offer.
If you are interested in making a financial donation to the Summer School, thank you! You may do so by making that choice on this donations page.