Portal:Leslie Stephen Lecture
bi-annual lecture at the University of Cambridge since 1907; endowed by his friends, with the specification that it be on "some literary subject, including therein criticism, biography and ethics;" named for Leslie Stephen
| Year | Name | Lecturer |
|---|---|---|
| 1907 | Samuel Johnson: the Leslie Stephen lecture, delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge 22 February 1907 | Walter Alexander Raleigh |
| 1909 | Tennyson: the Leslie Stephen lecture | William Paton Ker |
| 1911 | Principles of Biography: The Leslie Stephen Lecture delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge, on 13 May 1911 | Sidney Lee |
| 1913 | Gray's Letters[1] | T. H. Warren[2] |
| 1915 | Poetry and national character; the Leslie Stephen lecture delivered at Cambridge on 13 May 1915 IA | W. Macneile Dixon |
| 1917 | Jonathan Swift: the Leslie Stephen Lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 26 May 1917 | Charles Whibley |
| 1919 | Pope: the Leslie Stephen lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge 10 May 1919 IA | J. W. Mackail |
| 1921 | [3] | |
| 1923 | Classical and romantic : the Leslie Stephen lecture delivered at Cambridge, 3 May 1923 | H. J. C. Grierson |
| 1925 | Pope: the Leslie Stephen Lecture for 1925 IA | Lytton Strachey |
| 1927 | David Hume and the Miraculous, Leslie Stephen Lecture | Alfred Edward Taylor |
| as of 2023, post 1928 are not not clearly in the public domain, exceptions may exist. Odd year to even year variaion occurs from circa early 1970s. | ||
| 1929 | Progress in Literature: The Leslie Stephen Lecture 1929 | Lascelles Abercrombie |
| 1931 | Chaucer | John Masefield |
| 1933 | The name and nature of poetry | A. E. Housman |
| 1935 | Jane Austen | David Cecil |
| 1937 | Leslie Stephen: The Leslie Stephen lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 27 May 1937 | Desmond MacCarthy |
| 1939 | Leslie Stephen and Matthew Arnold as critics of Wordsworth : Leslie Stephen lecture 1939 | John Dover Wilson |
| 1941 | [4] | |
| 1943 | [4] | |
| 1945 | [4] | |
| 1947 | Tennyson's two brothers: the Leslie Stephen Lecture | Harold Nicolson |
| 1949 | [5] | |
| 1951 | The mechanism of satire | Edmund Valpy Knox |
| 1953 | ||
| 1955 | Three Episodes in the Life of Kaiser Wilhelm II ... The Leslie Stephen Lecture | John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett |
| 1957 | The Sense of the Past ... The Leslie Stephen Lecture, 1957 | Cicely Veronica Wedgewood |
| 1959 | Charles Townshend: his character and career | Lewis Namier and John Brooke |
| 1961 | Lloyd George: Rise and fall | A. J. P. Taylor |
| 1963 | Samuel Richardson[6][7] | Angus Wilson |
| 1965 | [8][7] | George N. Clark |
| 1967 | The sovereignty of good over other concepts | Iris Murdoch |
| 1969 | Disraeli and Gladstone | Robert Blake |
| 1972 | Morality and pessimism | Stuart Hampshire |
| 1974 | The art critic and the art historian | Quentin Bell |
| 1976 | Is history becoming a social science? : The case of contemporary history (1977) | Alan Bullock |
| 1979 | The sheep and the ceremony | Richard Wollheim |
| 1982 | Conyers Middleton | Hugh Trevor-Roper |
| 1985 | Real Presences: The Leslie Stephen Memorial Lecture, 1985 | George Steiner |
| ... | ||
| 1988 | Joy or Night: Last Things in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Philip Larkin (1993) | Seamus Heaney |
| ... | ||
| 1995 | Leslie Stephen and the New Dictionary of National Biography | H. C. G. Matthew |
| 1997 | ||
| 1999 | Leslie Stephen and Derivative Immortality | Jonathan Steinberg |
| 2002 | The lies and silences of biography | Victoria Glendinning |
| 2004 | India | Amartya Sen |
| 2005 | Changing conceptions of national biography: the Oxford D.N.B. in historical perspective | Keith Thomas |
| 2008 | The Biographer’s Tale | Claire Tomalin |
| 2010 | The Dark Sixteenth Century | Colm Tóibín |
| 2012 | Brotherly Biography: Leslie Stephen and Life-Writing | Hermione Lee |
| 2014 | George Eliot and the Difficulty of Reaching Conclusions | Rosemary Ashton |
| 2016 | Shaping granite into a rainbow: the task of the intellectual biographer | Ray Monk |
| 2018 | Liberalism, populism, and the fate of the world | Sir Simon Schama |
| 2022 | This identity we so feverishly cherish | Kwame Anthony Appiah[9] |
Notes edit
Some of the even year lectures of the 20th century may be year of publication of the lecture, rather than the year of address. Compiling the list has found inexact references and the information should be check for truthfulness
Other lecturers of undetermined years are
- Isaiah Berlin
- Seamus Heaney
- Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, Norfolk Antiquary [10]
Found reference to RudyardKipling c.1930 which seems to be an invitation to present.[11]
References edit
- ↑ No evidence that the lecture took place, or was published. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ The Times Issue: 40061, p. 14, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1912
- ↑ Unable to find a published work, nor a person being appointed to deliver the presentation. (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 cannot find evidence that it will held in this year; neither announcement of speaker nor publication (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Aberdeen Journal Issue: 29491, p. 4 Saturday, July 9, 1949, notes the BBC broadcast of the lecture without stating detail (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ The Times, Issue: 55676, p. 12, Tuesday, Apr. 16, 1963
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Can find not indication that the talk was published, though scheduled (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ The Times, Issue: 56300, p.12, Tuesday, Apr. 20, 1965
- ↑ Scheduled for 2020 but postponed due to covid pandenic (Wikisource contributor note)
- ↑ Author: Alan Noel Latimer Munby; The Times Literary Supplement, Issue: 3714, p.24, Friday, May 11, 1973
- ↑ sussex.ac.uk