
a Non-Profit Organization
Contact Information Houston Classical Poetry Club
- LOCATION of meetings (currently):
Black Lab Restaurant
4100 Montrose
Houston, Texas 77006
(Key Map #493S)
- WHEN:We meet the third Thursday of each month at 6:30pm at the Black Lab, unless otherwise indicated.
- CONTACT: Wendy Wilkinson wendy@wdengineering.com
- PARKING: Street parking and garage parking are available. There is a charge for garage parking only if you leave prior to 7pm. Since our discussion lasts longer than that, you won't be asked to pay.
Bottom line: You will be required to collect a ticket at 6pm but you won't need to pay when you leave (because the attendant leaves at 6pm or 7pm).
Discussions 2009
- Monday, Jan. 19, 6-8pm FAERIE QUEEN,Book One
- Monday, April 6, 6-8pm John Donne's Poetry
Freed-Montrose Library, Upstairs conference room
- Monday, May 25, 6-8pm DOCTOR FAUSTUS by Christopher Marlowe
Freed-Montrose Library, Upstairs conference room
- Thursday, July 30, 6:30pm TAMBURLAINE by Christopher Marlowe
at the Black Lab restaurant (adjacent to the Freed-Monrose library)
You can find all of these poems below, even the longer ones, online. When we are reading a selection of poems and you have a favorite poem by that particular poet that is not on the list, bring it along with a handful of copies.
- Thursday, August 27, Shakespeare
- Sonnet 18—Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
- 66—Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
- 116—Let me not to the marriage of true minds
- 129—Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
- 146—Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth
- Thursday, September 17, Sir Philip Sydney
- Sonnet 31—With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies
- 39—Come sleep, Oh sleep, the certain knot of peace
- Fourth Song: Only joy, now here you are
- Ring Out Your Bells
- The Nightingale
- Thursday, October 15, Sir Philip Sydney
- Thursday, November 19, Sir George Gascoigne
- Gascoigne's Woodmanship
- Gascoigne's Lullaby
- Thursday, December 17, Sir Walter Raleigh
- The Lie
- What Is Our life?
- Even Such Is Time
- Thursday, January 21, Thomas Campion
-
When Thou Must Home
- There is a Garden in Her Face
- Now Winter Nights Enlarge
- Shall I Come, Sweet Love, to Thee
- Thursday, February 18, Ben Jonson
- An Elegy: Though beauty to the mark of praise
- An Ode to Himself: Where dost thou careless lie
- Come, my Ceclia
- To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare: To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name
- Queen and Huntress
- Thursday, March 18, Female Poets of the Renaissance
- Queen Elizabeth—On Monsieur's Departure
- Anne Askew—The Ballad Which Anne Askew Made and Sang When She Was in Newgate
- Lady Mary Wroth—When night's blacke Mantle could most darknesse prove & Lost What Art Thou?
- Thursday, April 15, John Milton
Paradise Lost
Discussions prior years
2007
- Oct 11 organizational meeting
- Nov 8 GILGAMESH recommended translation by Stephen Mitchell
- Dec 13 meeting cancelled - Have a Merry Christmas
2008
- Jan 7 BEOWULF recommended translation by Seamus Heaney
- Feb 18 THE ODYSSEY by Homer
recommended abridged version at:
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~Johnstoi/homer/AbridgedOdyssey.htm
Downstairs conference room
- Mar 31 WIFE OF BATH by Chaucer
Upstairs conference room
- April 28 SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
(any version will work), Upstairs conference room
- July 21THE INFERNO by Dante, recommended translation by Robert Pinsky
- August 18 PETRARCH SONNETS selections TBA
- September 15 SONG OF ROLAND recommended translation by Robert Harrison
- Monday, Nov. 17, 6-8pm
English sonnets before Shakespeare
Requires no prior reading! If you have a favorite sonnet (or two or three), bring a handful of copies with you. Otherwise, come and enjoy the poetry!
Last Revised:August 26, 2009
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