NOTE: Extract from a Lecture Given by Dr. David Robb at Huntly on Wednesday 26th September 1990, by David Robb. The home page of the North Wind Archive can be accessed here.
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On Browning
On Burns
On Dante
On Shakespeare
On Tennyson
On Tom Hood (Playwright)
On Wordsworth
Miscellaneous Lectures
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ON BROWNING
Spring 2009
“How to read Browning”; Excerpts from reports of lectures on Robert Browning’s Saul and Christmas Eve
Winter 2011
“Mr. George MacDonald on Reading Poetry” (Browning)
Summer 2014
Browning’s “Christmas Eve”; “Bits of Browning” by Barbara Amell
ON BURNS
Fall 1997
“George MacDonald: His First Appearance in America” (Robert Burns.)
Summer 1998, Summer 2002, Winter 2004, Fall 2006, Fall 2011
Robert Burns
Fall 2012
Robert Burns (two reports)
Winter 2020
Dr. George MacDonald on Burns
ON DANTE
Winter 2005
Dante’s The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (three reports)
Fall 2006
Shelley; A Talk about Dante
Winter 2009
Dante’s Beliefs
Summer 2011
“A Dante Discovery” by Barbara Amell
Spring 2013
“George Macdonald on Dante”
Winter 2015
A Talk about Dante
ON SHAKESPEARE
Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Winter 2007, Fall 2017
Hamlet
Summer 2012
“A Course on Hamlet” documents MacDonald’s 6-lecture course on the play by Barbara Amell
Summer 2007
Julius Caesar
Winter 2014
Julius Caesar (two reports)
Fall 2005, Summer 2015
King Lear
Summer 2015
George MacDonald on King Lear
Fall 1998, Summer 2000, Winter 2002, Fall 2011, Fall 2011
Macbeth
Fall 2008
Macbeth Reported by Brown Palmer
Fall 2009
Macbeth Related in letter from Maria La Touche; various brief accounts of at-home talks on literary and religious subjects at Bordighera
Winter 2013
“A Visit with George MacDonald” (Macbeth)
Spring 2018
The Moral Drift of Shakespeare’s MacBeth
Summer 2006, Spring 2015, Winter 2017
The Merchant of Venice
Summer 2009
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Press report and notes of lecture
Winter 2008
“A Sermon from Shakespeare” (text from Othello)
Spring 2008
The Tempest
Fall 2010
“‘The Play of Mammon’: George MacDonald on Timon of Athens” Contains excerpts from reports of Timon lectures and George MacDonald’s notes from his annotated volume, Hamlet, by Barbara Amell
Spring 2011
The Moral Drift of Shakespeare
Winter 2012
Concerning Justice
“A Shakespearean Pulpit” documents advertisements for MacDonald’s courses of sermons form Shakespeare by Barbara Amell
Fall 2017
George MacDonald’s Studies of Romeo and Juliet, by Barbara Amell
Mr. George MacDonald on Romeo and Juliet
Summer 2018
Lecture on As You Like It
ON TENNYSON
Winter 1997, Spring 2012, Fall 2014
Tennyson
Spring 1998, Spring 2000
The Lyrics of Tennyson
Winter 2006
Tennyson’s In Memoriam
Winter 2010
The Art of Poetry Illustrated by Tennyson’s Lyrics
Spring 2014
Tennyson’s In Memoriam: Accompanying article with additional excerpts from other reports
Fall 2017
Lecture on In Memoriam
ON TOM HOOD (PLAYWRIGHT)
Summer 1999, Spring 2001, Winter 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2011, Spring 2016
Tom Hood
ON WORDSWORTH
Spring 2004, Winter 2011, Fall 2016
Wordsworth
Summer 2014
“The Wonders of Wordsworth: New Discoveries in George MacDonald’s Lectures” by Barbara Amell
MISCELLANEOUS LECTURES
Summer 2003 and Spring 2020
John Milton
Spring 2005
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Coleridge Collections
Spring 2007
Sir Walter Scott
Summer 2008
Sir Philip Sidney
Summer 2009
Rime of the Ancient Mariner Coleridge
Winter 2010
The Drama of the 16th Century
Spring 2010
John Milton; As You Like It
Summer 2010
“The Religion of Shelley”
“‘Shelley played upon him’: George MacDonald on Percy Bysshe Shelley” by Barbara Amell
Summer 2011
Coleridge
“‘The music in his soul’: George MacDonald on Samuel Taylor Coleridge” by Barbara Amell
Summer 2012
“‘Without fault’: George MacDonald on John Keats” Brief reports of Keats lectures by Barbara Amell
Spring 2013
“‘Remarkably True’: George MacDonald on the Art of Fantasy” Excerpts primarily from reports of lectures on Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Barbara Amell
Fall 2016
Lecture in Washington, D.C.
Spring 2017
George MacDonald’s Lecture Course on Poets, by Barbara Amell
Summer 2017
George MacDonald’s Spring 1872 Lecture Tour
Fall 2019
Commencing a Lecture Career