Seamus Heaney and Latin Poetry, lecture by Stephen Harrison
Thu 12 Nov · 17:00
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A lecture titled 'Seamus Heaney and Latin Poetry' by Professor Stephen Harrison will take place at The Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast on 12 November 2026. The event will include a drinks reception before the lecture begins. Attendance is free.
Join us for a talk by Professor Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford) on Seamus Heaney and Latin Poetry.
With a drinks reception at 5.00pm, Stephen's lecture will begin at 5.30pm.
Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College where he was the Tutor of Latin from 1987-2020. He has published widely on Latin literature and its reception. Recent publications include The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII (Bloomsbury, 2024), [with Regine May] Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and Psyche since 1650 (OUP, 2024), and [with Lorna Hardwick and Elizabeth Vandiver] and Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen: Classical Connections (OUP 2024). Among many other projects, he is currently working on a collection on Seamus Heaney’s translation of Aeneid 6 (for OUP).
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Seamus Heaney and Latin Poetry, lecture by Stephen Harrison takes place on Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 17:00.
Seamus Heaney and Latin Poetry, lecture by Stephen Harrison is held at The Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast (38 University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NJ).
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A lecture titled 'Seamus Heaney and Latin Poetry' by Professor Stephen Harrison will take place at The Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast on 12 November 2026. The event will include a drinks reception before the lecture begins. Attendance is free.
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Join us for a talk by Professor Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford) on Seamus Heaney and Latin Poetry.
With a drinks reception at 5.00pm, Stephen's lecture will begin at 5.30pm.
Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College where he was the Tutor of Latin from 1987-2020. He has published widely on Latin literature and its reception. Recent publications include The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII (Bloomsbury, 2024), [with Regine May] Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and Psyche since 1650 (OUP, 2024), and [with Lorna Hardwick and Elizabeth Vandiver] and Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen: Classical Connections (OUP 2024). Among many other projects, he is currently working on a collection on Seamus Heaney’s translation of Aeneid 6 (for OUP).
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Seamus Heaney and Latin Poetry, lecture by Stephen Harrison is held at The Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast (38 University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NJ).
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