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LOCATION:Elvet Riverside 140
SUMMARY:'Beauty in Trouble': Robert Graves and Louis MacNeice
DESCRIPTION:A public lecture in The Persistence of Beauty Lecture Series.T
 his lecture series is organised by the Romantic Dialogues and Legacies res
 earch group in Durham's Department of English Studies, and supported by th
 e University's Institute of Advanced Study. Focusing on British, Irish, an
 d American authors (including Hart Crane, W.H Auden, George Eliot, W. B. Y
 eats, Louis MacNeice, Walt Whitman) of the nineteenth and twentieth centur
 ies, this lecture series reflects on the ways that the Romantic and Post-R
 omantic imagination aspires towards an idealised notion of the beautiful a
 s a harmonious, often transcendent, perfection to discover that such an id
 eal conception of beauty can only be represented through an ironic mode of
  representation. This ironic representation of beauty was bequeathed to la
 ter writers by the Romantic tradition and shows how an aspiration towards 
 the beautiful confronts us with some of the most difficult and unbeautiful
  truths about the limitations of our contingent existences and the provisi
 onal nature of art itself. This realisation does not produce a diminishing
  commitment to the centrality of beauty for nineteenth- and twentieth- cen
 tury writers and their aesthetic theories and practices but, if anything, 
 renews and intensifies the persistent presence of the beautiful as the goa
 l and shaping force of both Romantic and Post-Romantic writing.
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