Speaking: Hay Festival The Boy / Poetry, 6 June 2004

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Series[UMA-SRE-20170009] SPEAKINGAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2017000900490Scope and ContentContains: Correspondence and schedule on Greer participation in the Guardian Hay Festival, 28/5-6/6/2004: Word of mouth. Greer gave illustrated lectures 5/6/2004 on The Boy, for fee of £2000, and "her annual lecture at Hay" The Uses of Poetry, 6/6/2004 for fee of £2000, the latter titled 'The Quintessential Love Poem' on "Sappho Phaentai moi and its Latin version, Catullus's Beatus ille...". Includes laser print of typescript titled "The Boy in Poetry", page numbered 1-17, begins: "Until relatively recently all literate English boys were nurtured in the classics..."; 3 pages from Festival brochure with Greer sessions; invitation card to The Orange Party at Hay, 5/6/2004. Correspondents: Germaine Greer; Carol Horne (for Germaine Greer); Peter Florence, The Hay Festival (includes 2 postcards to GG); Ayesha Karim-Khan, Gillon Aitken Associates. Subjects: Lectures and lecturing; The Boy; Hay-on-Wye Festival; Young men in art; Masculine beauty (Aesthetics); Poetry--History and Criticism; SapphoAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2017.0009 Unit 0015

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CreatorGreer, GermaineRoleProvenance

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Date8 August 2003-18 June 2004

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Speaking: Hay Festival The Boy / Poetry, 6 June 2004