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Nicholas Roe: Everyone has read John Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and the famous lines about the 'heifer lowing at the skies' depicted by the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum. Now subject to fierce controversy about cultural ownership, for Keats the Elgin Marbles embodied seemingly irreconcilable qualities of nature and ideal beauty. The experience of seeing the sculptures proved crucial for Keats's development as a poet, in ways that have not yet been adequately explored. This talk will begin such an exploration by asking a simple question: what exactly did Keats see when he visited the Elgin Marbles in March 1817? It certainly was not what a modern visitor to
the British Museum sees...
Tuesday, April 28 (For directions, go to: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg) Free and open to the public - no tickets/reservations required. For information call 617-253-3581. |
