Hopwood Lecturers

The complete list of lecturers and their subjects follows:

1932. Robert Morss Lovett. Literature and Animal Faith.
1933. Max Eastman. Literature in the Age of Science.
1934. Zona Gale.Writing as Design.
1935. Henry Hazlitt. Literature Versus Opinion.
1937. Christopher Morley. A Successor to Mark Twain.
1938. Walter Prichard Eaton. American Drama Versus Literature.
1939. Carl Van Doren. The First American Man of Letters.
1940. Henry Seidel Canby. The American Tradition in Contemporary Literature.
1941. Edward Weeks. On Counting Your Chickens Before They Hatch.
1942. John Crowe Ransom. The Primitive Language of Poetry.
1943. Mary Colum. Modern Mode in Literature.
1944. Louise Bogan. Popular and Unpopular Poetry.
1945. Struthers Burt. The Unreality of Realism.
1946. Harlan Hatcher. Towards American Cultural Maturity.
1947. Robert Penn Warren. The Themes of Robert Frost.
1948. J. Donald Adams. The Writer’s Responsibility.
1949. F. O. Matthiessen. Responsibilities of the Critic.
1950. Norman Cousins. In Defense of a Writing Career.
1951. Mark Van Doren. The Possible Importance of Poetry.
1952. Horace Gregory. Dramatic Art in Poetry.
1953. Stephen Spender. The Young Writer, Present, Past, and Future.
1954. John Gassner.Modern Playwriting at the Crowwroads.
1955. Archibald MacLeish. Why Can’t They Say What They Mean?
1956. Philip Rahv. Literary Criticism and the Imagination of Alternatives.
1957. Malcolm Cowley. The Beginning Writer in the University.
1958. John Ciardi. The Silences of the Poem.
1959. Howard Nemerov. The Swaying Form: A Problem in Poetry.
1960. Theodore Roethke. The Poetry of Louise Bogan.
1961. Saul Bellow.Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Fiction.
1962. Mark Schorer. The Burdens of Biography.
1963. Arthur Miller. On Recognition.
1964. Alfred Kazin. Autobiography as Narrative.
1965. Donald Davie. Sincerity and Poetry.
1966. Peter Taylor. That Cloistered Jazz.
1967. Robert Brustein. No More Masterpieces.
1968. Denise Levertov. Origins of a Poem.
1969. Peter De Vries. Exploring Inner Space.
1970. Nadine Gordimer. Modern African Writing.
1971. Theodore Solotaroff. The Practical Critic: A Personal View.
1972. Caroline Gordon. The Shape of the River.
1973. Robert W. Corrigan. The Changing of the Avant-Garde.
1974. W. D. Snodgrass.Moonshine and Sunny Beams: A Rumination on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
1975. Pauline Kael. On Movies.
1976. John Simon. The Word on Film.
1977. Walker Percy. The State of the Novel: Dying Art or New Science.
1978. Tom Wolfe. Literary Technique in the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century.
1979. Joan Didion. Making Up Stories.
1980. Al Alvarez. The Myth of the Artist.
1981. Arthur Miller. The American Writer: The American Theatre.
1982. Stephen Spender. The Obsession of Writers with the Act of Writing.
1983. Maxine Hong Kingston. Imagined Life.
1984. Norman Mailer. The Hazards and Sources of Writing.
1985. E. L. Doctorow. The Beliefs of Writers.
1986. Carolyn Kizer. Poetry of Social Concern Since World War II.
1987. Joyce Carol Oates. Beginnings.
1988. Donald Justice. The Prose Sublime.
1989. Francine du Plessix Gray.Women and Russian Literature.
1989. Francine du Plessix Gray. Women and Russian Literature.
1990. William Kennedy. Writers and Their Songs.
1991. Robert Hass. Prisons and Families: Some Thoughts on Contemporary Poetry.
1992. Richard Ford. What We Write About, and Why, and Who Cares.
1993. Roger Rosenblatt. Nine Anti-Rules of Journalism.
1994. Geoffrey Wolff. Writers and Their Characters.
1995. Diane Johnson. The Writer as a Character.
1996. Louise Glück. The Fear of Happiness.
1997. Philip Levine. Two Journeys.
1998. John Barth. Further Questions?
1999. Lawrence Kasdan. POV.
2000. Donald Hall. Starting and Keeping On.
2001. Andrea Barrett. Four Voyages.
2002. Edmund White. Writing Gay.
2003. Richard Howard. The Fatality of Reading.
2004. Mary Gordon. Flannery’s Kiss.
2005. Susan Orlean. Roads Taken (and not).
2005 Carolyn Forché. Poetry Reading.