Gravitas

Lets have your papers, lads and Rachel.

If you think to bring a coffee press to the retreat, you might do that. That way we will avoid . . . contaminating the machine there with whatever it is we are going to drink.

With regard to the Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry:

We plan to work through the flow of thought of the Clarke Lectures. The Turnbull Lectures are a condensation of the Clarke Lectures. There is better detail in the Clarke Lectures. So we will work through the argument that Eliot develops and then talk about the details.

Friday, January 19

8 PM At FBC for hot choklit and an hour of planning next season of Bashing.

9 PM General disbanding so that people may arrive at their lodgings at a decent hour to visit, or should it be more congenial, be unobtrusive.

Saturday, January 20

8AM Great Festival of Breakfast

9 AM Mr Eric White on the Glories of George Herbert
9:45 AM Small break, refreshments, and general congratulations

10 AM Miss Deborah Forteza on the Glories of Andrew Marvell
10:45 AM Small break, refreshments, and general congratulations

11 AM Miss Rachel Bauder on the Glories of Richard Crashaw
11:45 AM Small break, refreshments, and general congratulations

12 PM Great Festival of Lunch

1 PM Mr Ryan Martin on the Glories of Henry Vaughan
1:45 PM Small break, refreshments, and general congratulations

2 PM Mr Benjamin Nelson on the Glories of Jonny D
2:45 PM Small break, refreshments, and general congratulations

3 PM Mr Joel Zartman on the Glories of Thomas Traherne
3:45 PM Small break, refreshments, and general congratulations

4 PM Great Festival of a large break before supper, during which we can read more poetry if we like.

5 PM Great Festival of Supper

6 PM Enthralling Discussion of Mr. T.S. Eliot’s The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry.

8 PM Refreshments

9 PM The End

Sunday, January 21

8 AM The Observance of Breakfast