Professor of Poetry Lecture | Examinations Schools

Pirates, poets, and "plagiarism": How Byron translated and was translated by Greek poetry and reality.

9 May 2024, 5.30pm, Examination Schools, Oxford

A. E. Stallings' next Professor of Poetry lecture will be on ‘Pirates, poets, and "plagiarism": How Byron translated and was translated by Greek poetry and reality’. The talk will take place at Examination Schools in Oxford on 9 May at 5.30pm. 

All welcome; no booking required. Seats will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

A.E. Stallings is an American poet who studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford.

She has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives, and most recently, Like, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

She has published three verse translations, Lucretius's The Nature of Things (in rhyming fourteeners!), Hesiod's Works and Days, and an illustrated The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice.

A selected poems, This Afterlife, is just out from FSG in the US and Carcanet in the UK.