This Enchanted Isle – reading W H Auden’s ’The Sea and the Mirror’
W H Auden published his long poem ‘The Sea and the Mirror’ in 1944, five years after he left war-torn England to take up residence in America. It is billed as a ‘commentary’ on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and includes a number of individual pieces in a wide variety of forms (terza rima, sestina, sonnet, villanelle, blank verse, prose) voiced by the play’s characters. This reading course will offer an excellent opportunity to enter Auden’s mysterious, multi-layered world and explore these virtuoso poems in their own right as well as in relation to Shakespeare’s text, or Peter Greenaway’s film, or any other incarnation which takes your interest. The course will take place over ten weeks, with reading notes provided every week in order to generate discussion and your own poems.
To book your place on this course, please go to: http://tinyurl.com/seamirror
This is a private group. To join you must be a registered site member and request group membership.