The Department of English at the College of Arts and Sciences will host the Stonum Poetics Lecture Friday, March 31, at 3:15 p.m. in the Guilford Hall parlor.
Jahan Ramazani, the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia, will present “Mourning in Translation: How an Elegy for a Child Migrated across Time, Place, and Language.” In this talk, Ramazani will trace a poem by 13th century Muslim Persian poet Sa’di across centuries and continents.
Ramazani is a renowned scholar and author of six books on poetry and poetics.