Triggering Towns & Geographical Mirrors - Richard Hugo, Elizabeth Bishop & the Landscape Poem

Presented by Christopher Murray, PhD, Professor of English, University of Houston
University of Houston Professor of English Christopher Murray, PhD, will examine the theories of Richard Hugo and Elizabeth Bishop regarding the value of landscape in a poem as a “base of operations” out of which insights may arise, tracing the history of the landsape poem back to the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and various predecessors.