Peter Brennan

Visionary Company

 
His scholarship is impeccable and his understanding of his subjects deep. I have no hesitation in recommending him.
 – Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi (Warren Kenton)
Balancing spirituality, intuition and rigour, Brennan is a lightning rod.
– Mario Petrucci
Brennan’s teaching shows literature to be an engagement with the most serious questions of moral, emotional and spiritual life.
– Dr. Tom Jones, Lecturer in English, University of St. Andrews
Brennan’s teaching is for the establishing of a community of learning in which we are encouraged to engage with the word, with the world, and with our relationship to both .
 – Dr. N.Y. Potamitis, Honorary Research Fellow (University of Birmingham)
Brennan is a passionate, exciting teacher and I can’t recommend his courses highly enough.
 – Daily Mail
 Visionary Company courses were founded by Peter in 2005 to reveal the spiritual agenda that underlies the work of our greatest poets.

Drawing on three decades of experience of teaching and writing poetry, Peter helps students to explore the practical, contemporary esoteric meaning of their reading.

Each course runs from 10:30 – 4:30, and enables a gradually intensifying illumination of the purposes and implications of the work under discussion.

In an open, relaxed atmosphere, everyone is invited (but not obliged) to contribute in a context of respect for all opinions. Prior knowledge of the texts is not essential, but copies are available in advance. Poems and materials are included in the course price.

So far Peter has devised nine courses:

  • SHAKESPEARE: The Quest for Selfhood
  • The Metaphysical Moment: the Poetry of John DONNE, George HERBERT and Henry VAUGHAN
  • MILTON: Paradise Lost – Our Inner Freedom
  • WORDSWORTH and COLERIDGE: The Transcendent Art
  • KEATS: The Vale of Soul-Making
  • HOPKINS: Immortal Diamond
  • LAWRENCE: This Ache for Being
  • ELIOT: From Prufrock to Four Quartets: “The heavy burden of the growing soul”
  • POETRY and the SOUL’S JOURNEY: An Exploration of Twentieth-Century Poetry

For full details of courses currently scheduled please click here.

For further information, please contact Peter here.

Courses take place on Sundays at Flat A, Rutland House, 30 Greencroft Gardens, LONDON, NW6 3LT. (Tube: Finchley Road).

peter@peterbrennan.co.uk
+44 020 8363 3413
16B St. Andrew’s Road, Enfield, MIDDLESEX, EN1 3UB, UK

copyright Peter Brennan 2008