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  1. Thomas Hardy: Time-Torn Man

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (Cassette), £11.00

    Desmond Hawkins takes Hardy’s description of himself as "a time-torn man" as the starting point for this portrait in which he shows how Hardy’s work reflected the great changes that were taking place in...

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  2. Becoming Emily- A Portrait of Emily Dickinson Through Her Poems and Letters (2010)

    Director
    Norman Worrall; Marcus Korhonen
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £12.50

    The DVD includes some forty poems and thirty letter extracts written by Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson’s stature as a major poet has taken many years to emerge. Through dramatisations this film imagines...

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  3. Ted Hughes Dreamtime (2015)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £9.99

    Ted Hughes was one of the major poets of his generation. His older brother Gerald Hughes wrote a memoir of their relationship called ‘Ted and I’. The two brothers were close all their lives. This DVD is...

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  4. Turner and Venice (2003)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £17.99

    Venice is the subject that dominates the later paintings and watercolours of J.M.W Turner. Filmed in Italy and London, and produced alongside Tate’s major 2003-4 exhibition, this film explores all aspects...

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  5. Buckminster Fuller: Thinking out Loud (1996)

    Subject
    Engineering; Philosophy; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 94 minutes), $34.99

    A true Renaissance Man, Buckminster Fuller, best remembered as the architect and creator of the geodesic dome, made an equally dramatic mark as an engineer, inventor, poet, visionary, philosopher and...

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  6. Poetry of Sorley Maclean, The (2009)

    Subject
    Literature

    A short online course on the work of Sorley MacLean (1911-1998), who is now regarded as one of the greatest Scottish poets of the twentieth century. However, until the 1970s, his verse was known by very few...

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  7. What’s So Great About Proust? (2010)

    Subject
    French studies; Literature

    Published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927, Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, in so far as it deals explicitly with a disappearing world in ways often felt to be incorrigibly nostalgic,...

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  8. Major Works of Jonas Mekas, The (2012)

    Director
    Jonas Mekas
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 798 minutes), £50.00 (individual); £200.00 (institutional)

    This box set brings together the key works of Jonas Mekas, one of the most prolific avant-garde film artists and an acclaimed poet. Born in Lithuania in 1922, chased west by Soviet and Nazi forces, Mekas and...

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