Yopie Prins: “Metrical Discipline: Algernon Swinburne on “The Flogging Block”“

Tuesday, November 29 at 4:00, LC 317. The English Department Lecture Series presents: Yopie Prins is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan.  She is the author of “Victorian Sappho” (Princeton 1999) and “Ladies’ Greek: Translations of Tragedy” (Princeton 2012). She is currently completing “Voice Inverse”  (a book on meter and music in Victorian poetry) and “The Lyric Theory Reader” (a critical anthology co-edited with Virginia Jackson, for Johns Hopkins UP