Responses to P.B. Shelley's "A Defence of Poetry" (1821)
Date: 23 MAY 2022 from 10:00 to 18:00
Event location: Sapienza University of Rome and Keats-Shelley Memorial House
Type: Convention
Sapienza University of Rome – Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies
Inter-University Centre for the Study of Romanticism – Keats-Shelley Memorial House
h. 10am Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Aula Odeion.
Institutional greetings
Rector Prof. Antonella Polimeni
Principal of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Prof. Arianna Punzi
Director of Department DSEAI Prof. Camilla Miglio
Chair: Andrea Peghinelli
Lilla Crisafulli (University of Bologna), “A Defence of Poetry”: Shelley’s engagement with futurity
Michael Rossington (Newcastle University), The afterlives of “A Defence of Poetry” in the writings of the Shelleys
Paolo Bugliani (University of Pisa), “The age of romance was over. The age of realism had begun”. Forme della Difesa della poesia nel Modernismo
h. 16 Keats-Shelley Memorial House, Piazza di Spagna 26.
Contemporary Poets on Shelley’s Defence
Chair: Carmen Gallo
Invited Poets: Franco Buffoni, Laura Pugno, Guido Mazzoni.