{"id":67,"date":"2018-11-20T16:12:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T16:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/presence\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2019-01-15T20:59:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:59:54","slug":"william-blake-and-elizabeth-bishop-in-the-anthropocene","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/presence\/william-blake-and-elizabeth-bishop-in-the-anthropocene\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/11: William Blake and Elizabeth Bishop in the Anthropocene"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies (Yale University)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Sandpiper” along with William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence,” the talk makes a case for the continuing resonances of two poets who, writing before climate change was an available term, nonetheless spoke to the vulnerabilities of the planet — of humans and nonhumans — in a way newly meaningful in the climate-endangered twenty-first century.<\/p>\n

Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Editor of PMLA<\/em>, she also writes for Critical Inquiry<\/em>, the Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>, the New Yorker<\/em>, and the New York Times<\/em>. She was a consultant for Invitation to World Literature<\/em>, a 13-part series produced by WGBH and aired on PBS. Her new book, Weak Planet: From Vulnerability to Resilience<\/em>, is forthcoming from U of Chicago Press. Her lecture, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner<\/em>, is available from Open Yale courses.<\/p>\n