by Harry Levin
Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard
Since written literature existed there have always been literary exiles banished for political reasons or because their works were considered morally subversive; and there were those who were alienated from home without leaving it — Melville's Ishmaels.
Professor Levin speaks on the influence of exile on the content and style of these poets and novelists from Ovid and Dante to Ezra Pound and Nabokov.
followed by an interlude at 8.40