The prestigious Annual TS Eliot Lecture has been presented by the TS Eliot Society (UK) since 2009. It has been given by many leading Eliot scholars, and generously hosted by a series of Colleges. The Lecture is open to students, members of the public and to TS Eliot Society members, who have booking privileges.
Recordings of many of the Lectures are available to Society members.
Chronicle
Oxford, 2023
2009 – Frank Kermode
Michaelhouse Centre, Cambridge
2010 – Malcolm Guite
Magdalene College, Cambridge
2011 – Alexandra Harris
Magdalene College, Cambridge
2012 – Jeremy Noel-Tod
The Long Song of J Alfred Prufrock
Magdalene College, Cambridge
2013 – Rowan Williams
Eliot’s Christian Society and the current political crisis
Clare College, Cambridge
2014 – Jewel Spears Brooker
TS Eliot and the Ecstasy of Assent
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Cambridge, 2018
2015 – Mark Ford
TS Eliot in 2015
Magdalene College, Cambridge
2016 – Sarah Kennedy
Eliot’s Ghost Women
Newnham College, Cambridge
2017 – Ron Schuchard
The man and woman who suffer in The Waste Land
Newnham College, Cambridge
2018 – Christopher Ricks
The Imperfections of Humanity: TS Eliot and a Shakespearean Hero
Pembroke College, Cambridge
London, 2022
2019 – Hannah Sullivan
TS Eliot and the Art of Abandonment
Merton College, Oxford
2021 – Seamus Perry
TS Eliot’s Liberalism
Merton College, Oxford
2022 – John Haffenden
Vivien Eliot – Woman and Writer
University College, London
2023 – Lyndall Gordon
TS Eliot’s Secrecy: Disguise and the
Hidden Drama of Emily Hale
Merton College, Oxford
2024 – Richard Harries
Eliot, Auden and the enjoyment of life
Newnham College, Cambridge
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