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May Day

Date released

5 May 1927

Series name

Empire News Bulletin

Issue no

106

NoS ID

048073

Story no

2 / 7

Slade catalogue entry: May Day: There were no rural revels such as poets sang about, but decorous crowds attended the political demonstrations.

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Augustan Poets, The (1999 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £16.90

Introduces the work of the Augustan poets, concentrating on Pope and Dryden and includes readings and reconstructions to place the poets and their work in context. Examines themes such as bitterness,...

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Shakespeare Sonnets (2016 Audio)

As part of the Shakespeare 400 Festival, and to coincide with the publication of ‘On Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Poets’ Celebration’, Margreta de Grazia introduces ten of the poets, each of whom reads...

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Great War Poets, The (2014)

Director

Bob Carruthers

Subject

History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 46 minutes), £11.00

Documentary about the First World War poets, including Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon and A.E.Housman.

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Metaphysical Poets, The (1999 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2004 sale: £19.90 (+ VAT +p&p)

Examines the work of the metaphysical poets as exemplified by John Donne. The work of the metaphysical poets was characterised by ingenious, often highly intricate wordplay. The video includes period...

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Victorian Poets, The (1999 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £16.90

The work of Tennyson, Browning and Hopkins provides the basis for this introduction to the work of the Victoria poets. Featuring readings of the great works of this period, plus atmospheric filmed...

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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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Lake Poets, The: William Wordsworth (2004)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £14.99

The term ‘Lake poets’ was first used in the August 1817 ‘Edinburgh Review’ to describe William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey in a derogatory manner. History now regards the...

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Sonnet, The (1997 Video)

Producer

Amanda Willett

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 2004 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the 600-year-old poetic form of the sonnet. Poets Tony Harrison, Wendy Cope and Douglas Dunn explain why the sonnet is still so popular among contemporary poets.

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In Person: 30 Poets

Director

Pamela Robertson-Pearce

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 320 minutes), £12.00

IN PERSON is a collaboration between Bloodaxe Books and award-winning filmmaker Pamela Robertson-Pearce. The anthology is presented in the form of a 272 page book and two DVDs, featuring the work of thirty...

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