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T. S. Eliot: A Celebration of his Life, Work, and Legacy, and of the T.S. Eliot Foundation and Prize

Mark Ford, Lyndall Gordon, Jason Harding, Hannah Sullivan and Geoffrey Streatfeild

Thursday, 31 March 2022

2:00pm

1 hour 15 minutes

Bodleian: Divinity School

£7 - £12.50

A panel of world-renowned scholars, authors, and poets explores the life and work of Nobel Prize winning poet, critic, and dramatist T S Eliot, with readings by actor Geoffrey Streatfeild. They will illuminate some of the key themes in Eliot’s work and delve into his times and influence. There will be readings, debate, and some questions and answers.

Professor Mark Ford is a professor in the English department at University College London. He has published four volumes of poetry, including Enter, Fleeing. His collection of essays, This Dialogue of One, was the winner of the Poetry Foundation’s 2015 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism.

Lyndall Gordon is author of The Imperfect Life of T S Eliot, winner of the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay prize and the Southern Arts prize. Her forthcoming book, The Hyacinth Girl: T S Eliot’s Hidden Muse, will be published this year.

Professor Jason Harding of Durham University is an expert on T S Eliot and Eliot’s journal The Criterion. He is author of The Criterion: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-war Britain.

Hannah Sullivan is an academic and poet based at New College Oxford. She won the T S Eliot Prize in 2018 for Three Poems.

Discussions will be chaired by Claire Armitstead, the Guardian associate editor, culture.

This event lasts one hour 15 mins.

Supported by the T S Eliot estate.

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FT Weekend Title partner University of Oxford Netflix European Union Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme BBC World Service International radio partner Owen Mumford Supporter of programme of science and medicine and annual science and innovation award Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Spanish Embassy Event generously supported by the Spanish Embassy Cervantes Institute, London Republic of Panama Event generously supported by Republic of Panama Italian Embassy Supporter of Italian programme The Dorchester Hotels Collection Festival London hotel partner International Literary Properties Supporters of the festival green room Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels Sponsor of the festival crime fiction programme The Feathers Hotel Woodstock festival hotel John Roberts Lady Hatch Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture Emily Rose and James Marrow Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Miles Young Masumi and Jonathan Dobson George Warren Pank Koria CEO of Project People Lucian Hudson Carole and John Allen David Isaac Jill Dunsmore Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Anna Hunter Marlene Hauser Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival New College Worcester College Worcester College Lincoln College Lincoln College St Cross College St Cross College Trinity College Trinity College Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner TORVA Books which change you, your mind, your world Transworld Doubleday Doubleday Bantam Jewish Book Week Partner of Jewish programme Foodbuy Thje Menu Partners Institute of Hospitality Project People Royal Academy of Arts British Academy Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily The Oxford Times Regional media partner BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Conference Oxford Felicity Bryan Associates CAV Oxford Critchleys Accountants to the festival The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford Brookes University Siren Communications Siren Communications - corporate consultants OX magazine Ox in a Box K T Bruce Photography K T Bruce Photography The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders Chêne Bleu Wines of Provence La Leccia Flip through Flanders Literature Ireland Confucius Institute Pusey House James Currey Society The Wild Geese