日時：2026年12月19日（土）午後4：00～5：40
会場：中央大学市谷田町キャンパス7階701室（東京都新宿区市谷田町1-18）
アクセス：東京メトロ有楽町線・南北線「市ヶ谷駅」（6番出口）正面。
JR 中央・総武線「市ケ谷駅」から徒歩約 5 分。
都営地下鉄新宿線「市ヶ谷駅」（A1 出口）から徒歩約 5 分。
都営地下鉄大江戸線「牛込柳町駅」（南東口）から徒歩約 10 分
https://www.chuo-u.ac.jp/access/ichigayatamachi/
講師：ティモシー・ハリス氏（放送大学）
題目：The “Voice” of Poetry: On Reading Poetry Aloud
司会：橋本健広氏（中央大学）
要旨：John Milton famously asserted that poetry is ”less subtle and fine, but
more simple, sensuous and passionate” than logic and rhetoric. A poem
doesn’t exist in aesthetic isolation, only to be approached from the
outside with the right set of intellectual tools. What I propose to do in
this talk & reading is to address the “corporeal” nature of poetry —the
way it appeals first of all to the ear and, particularly through its
rhythms, to the body. The reading aloud of poetry is a practical matter,
not an intellectual one (though it requires intelligence), and depends
upon being acutely sensitive to the way a poet exploits the possibilities
of particular metres to create a variety of rhythmic and expressive
energies. I shall be paying particular attention (with examples) to the
interplay between metrical beat and natural accent, and to the differing
tensions of enjambement, among other things, and showing, I hope,
what in particular cases they express. The talk will be followed by a
reading of chiefly Romantic poems.
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Event name: Winter Table Talk
Held by: Japan Association of English Romanticism and Institute of Policy and Cultural Studies at Chuo University
Date: 19 Dec 2026 16:00 - 17:30 (JST)
Venue: Chuo University (Ichigaya Tamachi Campus, 7th floor, Room 701)+Zoom
https://www.chuo-u.ac.jp/english/visit/ichigaya/
A single stand-alone building in front of Exit 6 of Ichigaya Station on the Namboku Subway and Yurakucho Subway Lines
Lecturer: Timothy Harris (Former Lecturer at the Open University of Japan)
Title: The “Voice” of Poetry: On Reading Poetry Aloud
Chair: Takehiro Hashimoto (Chuo University)
Abstract:John Milton famously asserted that poetry is ”less subtle and fine, but
more simple, sensuous and passionate” than logic and rhetoric. A poem
doesn’t exist in aesthetic isolation, only to be approached from the
outside with the right set of intellectual tools. What I propose to do in
this talk & reading is to address the “corporeal” nature of poetry —the
way it appeals first of all to the ear and, particularly through its
rhythms, to the body. The reading aloud of poetry is a practical matter,
not an intellectual one (though it requires intelligence), and depends
upon being acutely sensitive to the way a poet exploits the possibilities
of particular metres to create a variety of rhythmic and expressive
energies. I shall be paying particular attention (with examples) to the
interplay between metrical beat and natural accent, and to the differing
tensions of enjambement, among other things, and showing, I hope,
what in particular cases they express. The talk will be followed by a
reading of chiefly Romantic poems.
Register from here. The dealine is 18 Dec 2026.