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Event poster for the 2026 Dan S. Collins Lecture titled "Milton’s Cosmic Imagination." The background features a celestial, etched illustration of a winged figure falling through a colorful nebula toward a galaxy.  Details:  Speaker: Kristen Poole, University of Delaware.  Date/Time: April 29, 4:30 PM.  Location: Old Chapel, UMass Amherst.  Logos: English Literary Renaissance and UMass Amherst College of Humanities & Fine Arts.

The English Department's annual Dan S. Collins Lecture is delivered by a leading scholar in the field of early modern literature. The lecture is named for Dan S. Collins, a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1957 until his retirement in 1987. Collins co-founded English Literary Renaissance in 1971, a journal devoted to current criticism and scholarship of Tudor and early Stuart English literature, 1485-1665.

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