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The Society meets the second Wednesday of each month at 1:00 p.m., from October through April. Our annual May luncheon commemorates the birth of Robert Browning on May 7, 1812. All events are held at our home at The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York City.
Programs for the 2009-2010 season are …
October 14 Rita S. Patteson, Interim Director
Associate Professor, Librarian/Curator of Manuscripts
Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University
The Library holds the world’s largest collection of Browning manuscripts and related items. Professor Patteson’s generously illustrated program will highlight choice items from Library’s holdings, with particular emphasis on exciting recent acquisitions, and the ABL’s plans for the Robert Browning bicentennial in 2012.
November 11 John S. Timpane
Media Editor/Writer and Assistant Book Editor
Philadelphia Inquirer
“Browning, Aristotle, and Storytelling”
We’re delighted to welcome Mr. Timpane once again!
Browning gives us intimate pictures of strong, singular characters and their strong, singular responses to challenges. In that, he follows the behests of the first and best authority on storytelling, Aristotle. It's also why he is one of the best storytellers in English poetry.
December 9 Our Browning Family Holiday
Join us as we celebrate the Season with a program of our favorite poems, letters, and reminiscences.
2010 PROGRAMS
January 13
A Visit with Fra Lippo Lippi
One of Browning's greatest dramatic monologues is brought to life by actor Craig Wichman, who portrays the philandering monk and artistic genius so brilliantly drawn by our poet. Introductory analysis by NYBS Vice President Stephen Downey.
February 10
Browning Inspires Youth
Gramercy Arts High School students read a Browning poem that moved them, and then their original poems inspired by our poet. These gifted and enthusiastic teenagers will amaze and thoroughly entertain you.
March 10
Poet Richard Howard
We are delighted to welcome back the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard. Professor Howard teaches at Columbia University, and is the poetry editor of The Paris Review and Western Humanities Review. Browning is one of his favorite poets.
April 14 Vincent Petronella, Professor Emeritus
University of Massachusetts
“Shades of Poe: Browning’s “Evelyn Hope” and “Gold Hair”
We welcome the return of Professor Petronella and his wife, Mary. He is a seminar leader and board member for Beacon Hill Seminars in Boston, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, the poetry of the Brownings and John Keats, the fiction of Hawthorne and Melville and the plays of George Bernard Shaw. He is a past president of the Boston Browning Society.
May 7 The Society’s Annual Meeting and Luncheon
Dr. Scott Lewis
Editor, The Browning’s Correspondence
Senior Research Fellow, De Montfort University
Visiting Fellow, Armstrong Browning Library
A scholarly and generously annotated complete correspondence of the Brownings was
begun by Philip Kelley (a past president of our Society) and the late Ronald Hudson. The first volume appeared in 1984; Scott is now working on Volume 18 of a projected 45 volumes! He will tell us about the project, and some recent discoveries, as well as his research for a biography of Dr. Andrew J. Armstrong, founder of the Library. We also will present our annual high school poetry awards.
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