The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry Podcast

10.1 Srikanth Reddy: "The Unsignificant"


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Welcome to the first episode of Season Ten of the Bagley

Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.

Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by

Srikanth Reddy during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2015.

Srikanth Reddy’s series of lectures consider a range of

questions concerning poetry and visual art, including theories of likeness, ekphrasis, and wonder.

Today, we’ll hear a recording of “The Unsignificant,” given October 2, 2015 at New York University.  This lecture considers W. H. Auden's poem “Musee des Beaux Arts” in relation to Peter Brueghel's painting “The Fall of Icarus,” and references a number of artworks. To view a gallery of these works, visit the Bagley Wright Lecture Series website or click here.

Reddy’s book based on his BWLS lectures, The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available ⁠here⁠.

Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more

information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.

Music: "⁠I Recall⁠" by ⁠Blue Dot Sessions⁠

from the ⁠Free Music Archive⁠

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