The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift

This is a Virtual Program via Zoom in collaboration with Tewksbury Public Library

Join us as Harvard professor Stephanie Burt delivers a fascinating presentation based on her brand new book, Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift. Burt, who is a poet and literary scholar, presents an insightful and heartfelt critical appreciation of Taylor Swift, her body of work, and the community that her art has fostered. Drawing from her 2024 Harvard course, Taylor Swift and Her World, as well as from her years as a Swiftie, Burt examines Swift’s particular form of genius – not the destructive genius of tortured poets, but the collaborative and joyful genius of an artist who has mastered her craft.

Register for The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift via Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2717582988423/WN_HPywtl57SICoVx5u-fjbQA

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Burt is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. Her work appears in the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, and the London Review of Books, among others. Her other books of poetry and literary criticism — fourteen in all — include We Are Mermaids, Advice from the Lights, and Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems.

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