Poetry readings again

Press, 7 March 1978, Page 6

Poetry readings again

Poetry readings — popular at the 1976 Arts Festival — will begin today, under the title “The vision of English poetry.” The readings will be accompanied by slides of paintings of the era. The narrator will be Robert Erwin, and the readers Ben Ayre, Richard Corballis. ; Helen Debenham, Julie King i and Vincent Orange. The reading today, “The Vision of Truth,” will cover the lesser-known but representative poems of the six-

teenth and seventeenth centuries, and will be repeated on March 10. Related paintings will be from Elizabethan portraiture and the religious painting of the Italian Renaissance. Tomorrow’s reading, "The Vision of Reason,” will look at the eighteenth century poetry, frequently satirical and pastoral, with the paintings of Hogarth and the beginnings of the school of English landscape painters. The session will be repeated on March 10. “The Vision of Hope” —

the Romantics — will be the third session, on March 14, repeated on March 16. Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats will be juxtaposed with the paintings of Constable and Turner. The final session, “The Vision of Faith,” to run on March 15 and March 17, will cover the mid-nineteenth century. Social concern and artistic innovation will be seen in the poetry and paintings of the pre-Raphaelites The readings will be from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., with door sales only.