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The Center for the American Idea presents...
Literature
and the Moral Imagination
at Houston Baptist University
A FREE workshop for middle and high school Literature teachers.
Tentative Topics:
• J.R.R. Tolkien: The Influence of His Work as an English Professor
• Gerald Manley Hopkins: Incarnational Poetics
• King Lear: Nothing Will Come of Nothing
• Wordsworth: the Sublime and the Beautiful
• American Writers of the 1920's
• Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: Emperor or Republican
• and more to be announced!
Tentative Speakers
Benjamin Lockerd is professor
of English at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
He is the author of The Sacred Marriage: Psychic Integration in the
Faerie Queene and Aethereal Rumours: T.S. Eliot's Physics &
Poetics. He is currently on the board of directors of the T. S. Eliot
Society. Dr. Lockerd received his M.A. from the University of Toronto
and his Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from University of Connecticut.
Important Details:
There is no charge to attend American Idea Workshops.
Continental breakfast and lunch included.
TEKS information and useful handouts on subjects presented will be available.
Books will be available for purchase at reduced cost. MasterCard, Visa, Cash & Checks accepted.