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THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF THE PREVIOUS PRATT LECTURERS:

Year / Lecturer / Lecture Title
1968 / Northrop Frye / Silence in the Sea
1969 / A. J. M Smith / Some Poems of E.J. Pratt: Aspects of Imagery and Theme
1970 / Paul West / Doubt and Dylan Thomas
1971 / Cleanth Brooks / The Poetry of Tension
1972 / Jay MacPherson / Pratt’s Romantic Mythology: “The Witches’ Brew”
1973 / William Empson / The Secret Marriage of Andrew Marvel
1974 / Miriam Waddington / Folklore in the Poetry of A.M. Klein
1975 / Stephen Spender / Objectivity, Subjectivity and Insularity: The Grounds of Choice Between American and European Cultures
1976 / George Whalley / Birthright to the Sea: Some Poems of E.J. Pratt
1976 / James Reaney / The Real Foundation for the Spree: The Working Poet in the Contemporary World of Poetry and Criticism
1978 / George Rylands / Unconsidered Trifles: The Poet’s Parts of Speech
1979 / Louis Dudek / The Theory of the Image in Modern Poetry
1980 / John Wain / The Modern Poet and the Sense of History
1982 / David Pitt / Towards the First Spike: The Evolution of a Poet
1983 / C. J. Fox / Wyndham Lewis and E.J. Pratt: A Convergence of Strangers
1984 / Kenneth Muir / Shakespeare’s Didactic Art
1984 / Leon Edel / Memories of the Montreal Group
1985 / David Lodge / Dialogue in the Modern Novel
1986 / Terry Eagleton / The End of English
1987 / Paul Fussell / On the Persistence of Pastoral
1988 / Anne Saddlemeyer / Wisdom, Magic Sensation: W.B. Yeats in the 1930s
1989 / Ursula LeGuin / Voice Text, Sound Text
1991 / John Leyerle / The Wheel and the Rose
1992 / Linda Hutcheon / Irony and the Power of the Unsaid
1993 / Seamus Heaney / Extending the Alphabet on Christopher Marlowe’s ‘Hero and Leander’
1994 / Helen Vendler / W.B. Yeats: Museums, Pictures, Statues
1994 / Christopher Ricks / E.C. Gaskell’s Charlotte Brontë
1997 / John Mortimer / Law and Literature
1998 / Christopher Pratt / Being A Realist
2001 / Phyllis Grosskurth / Why Biography?
2001 / Stan Dragland / The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: Romancing History
2003 / Alberto Manguel / The Library at Night
2003 / Cees Nooteboom / In the Eye of the Storm: Musings on a Nomadic Life
2004 / Susan Gubar / The Once and Future History of Sex & Gender
2005 / Robert Bringhurst / The Silence That Is Not Poetry and the Silence That Is
2006 / Susan Gingell / Towards an Aesthetics of Noise
2008 / John Steffler / The Uses of Poetry
2009 / Ted Chamberlin / The Snarl Around Our Dory: The Long Line of Island Traditions
2010 / Don McKay / The Speaker’s Chair: Field Notes on Betweenity
2011 / Jane Urquhart / Inner Lives: Fiction and the Visual Imagination
2013 / Patrick O’Flaherty / Newfoundland Poetry and Politics in the 1940’s, with a suggestion about ‘The Bastard’ Acrostic