Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center presents
Conversations: Walt Whitman the year of his birth, 1819 Anita Patterson and Christopher Ricks
This the nucleus— after the child is born of woman, man is born of woman,This the bath of birth, this the merge of small and large, and the outlet again.
* * * Song of the bleeding throat,
Death’s outlet song of life . . .
Anita Patterson is Professor of English at Boston University;Christopher Ricks is Professor of the Humanities
Wednesday, February 20, 20197:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Richards-Roosevelt Room771 Commonwealth AvenueFirst Floor of Mugar Library
Free and Open to the Public
bu.edu/archives
617-353-3696
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Join us for the next “Conversation” on Thursday, March 21:
John Keats: the Great Year of his poems 1819
