In conjunction with the Art Gallery show Stone From Delphi, featuring watercolors by Wendy Artin (AAR Advisor) and poems by the Irish Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney gathered in a fine arts press edition of the same title published by the Arion Press (San Francisco), Heaney will present a public reading, in English, of his poems on classical subjects, including “Undine,” “The Stone Verdict,” “The Death of Orpheus,” the splendid Chorus to Man in Heaney’s translation of Sophocles’s Antigone entitled The Burial at Thebes, and “Actaeon,” a poem inspired by the late Titian painting of the hunter transformed into a stag and destroyed by his own hounds in punishment for spying on Diana at her bath. Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Sophocles, and Aeschylus have all been important influences on Heaney, and poems on classical subjects can be traced throughout his work from 1966 to the present. The show Stone From Delphi exhibition will be open before, during, and after Heaney’s reading.

Seating on a first-come, first-served basis. A reception at the Irish Embassy (Villa Spada) will follow the reading. Reservations are necessary.

This program is made possible through the support of the Irish Embassy in Rome.

Related Events

7 May 2013
Round-table: Seamus Heaney and His Italian Critics, Editors and Translators
Casa delle Letterature - Piazza dell'Orologio 3
www.casadelleletterature.it

8 May 2013
Exhibition: Wendy Artin and Seamus Heaney - Stone From Delphi: Watercolors and Poems
American Academy in Rome
Show runs through 3 June 2013; gallery hours Fr, Sa, Su 4pm- 7pm.

9-10 May 2013
Literary Event: Ovid Transformed: the Poet and the Metamorphoses, Readings and Conversations
9 May at Casa delle Letterature - Piazza dell'Orologio 3
www.casadelleletterature.it
10 May at American Academy in Rome