Tribute Reading for Bennett Lamond
At 4 pm on Tuesday, September 20, the Department of English and the Rose O’Neill Literary House held a tribute reading for Professor Bennett Lamond, to celebrate and pay tribute to his life and legacy.
“Comforter, where, where is your comforting?” asks Gerard Manley Hopkins in a poem that begins with the speaker “pitched past pitch of grief.” Perhaps no one at Washington College loved the poetry of Hopkins more than Bennett Lamond, Professor of English Emeritus, who passed away on August 15.
09/21/2016
Director of the C.V. Starr Center, Adam Goodheart, speaks about Bennett
Just a few of the many posters hung around the Lit House that commemorate previous Bennett Lamond events.
Dr. Courtney Rydel reads a stanza from Chaucer in Middle English
Olivia Serio reads "To Rosamund," the poem that Bennett read during the April 2016 event, "Whan that Aprille Day"
Dr. Diane Cousineau speaks about Bennett
After introducing the event, Interim Director Dr. James Hall and English Department Head Dr. Kathryn Moncrief show a video of Bennett discussing the origins of May Day.
Dr. Moncrief reads a Hopkins poem
Dr. Striner reads a poem
Maria Hynson reminisces about Bennett
Dr. James Hall reads a Hopkins poem
Devin Taylor reads
Dr. Tom Cousineau reads