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Byron’s Rhetoric

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 50 minutes), £11.00

One of a series of taped lectures and interviews by eminent authors, poets, psychologists and professors on aspects of English Literature. Produces in the USA. This is a talk on Byron given by G. Wilson Knight.

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Persisting Dreams: Romanticism in Europe (1996 Video)

Producer

G D Jayalakshmi

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Tells the story of Byron as romantic hero - how he constructed himself and how he influenced later artists including the French painter Delacroix and the composer Giuseppi Verdi. Romanticism is thus shown as...

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Byron (2 Parts) (2003)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £19.99

A television dramatisation of the life of George Gordon Byron in two parts.

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Romantic Poets, The (2000 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2004 sale: £16.90 (+p&p +VAT)

A study of the poets of the Romantic period, focusing particularly on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron and Keats. Provides an introduction to a movement that reflected the general shift in attitude in the early...

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Best (2017)

aka: George Best: All by Himself

Director

Daniel Gordon

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £9.99

Documentary about George Best, which explores the life of the footballer from his explosive debut as a teenager for Manchester United to his final years as an alcoholic.

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Animal Farm (1954)

Director

John Halas; Joy Batchelor

Subject

English language and literature; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £6.98

John Halas and Joy Batchelor’s adaptation of George Orwell’s novel was the first feature-length British animated film to be given a theatrical release. Actor and singer Gordon Heath narrates, and the...

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English Romantic Poets, The (1998 Multimedia)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

CD-ROM

CD-ROM on the English Romantic poets and their world, supported by visual images including Blake etchings and material from the collection of the Wordsworh Trust. Features over 70 poems by William Blake,...

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Poetry in the National Curriculum: Before 1900 (2000)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, CD-ROM (Hybrid), £25.00

This double audio CD contains works by poets listed in the National Curriculum. They include William Blake, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Herbert, Robert Herrick,...

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Romanticism and Revolution (1770 - 1870)

Subject

History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 23 minutes), £39.00

Investigates the Enlightenment roots of the American Revolution and examines its influence on the French Revolution. Illustrates how revolt became a romantic idea during the period-a passionate outburst by...

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Khartoum (1966)

Director

Basil Dearden

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 136 minutes), £14.99

In 1880s Sudan, thousands of British-led Egyptian troops are massacred by the forces of Arab fanatic Muhammad Ahmad (Laurence Olivier), who believes he is the Mahdi, and nothing less than Mohammed’s chosen...

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