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.

The following lectures that have appeared in the Wingfold quarterly magazine are arranged by subject. To jump to a section, please select one of the following:

On Browning
On Burns
On Dante
On Shakespeare
On Tennyson
On Tom Hood (Playwright)
On Wordsworth
Miscellaneous Lectures

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Wingfold is a quarterly magazine that restores material by and about George MacDonald, in print since 1993. To subscribe, click here. To request any of the following articles that appear in back issues of Wingfold, contact Barbara Amell at b_amell@q.com.

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