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Professor Brooks takes his listeners on a guided tour of the poem.
Professor Brooks clarifies the complications of the plot, and then examines the world Congreve depicts, the duel between the hero and heroine, the characterisation in the play and the writer’s style.
Professor Brooks considers the origin of the satire and the choice of Flecknoe for the attack upon Shadwell. He then examines the central concept of the poem, its special qualities as a specimen of the...
Professor Brooks considers first the origin and general form of the novel ‘The Waves’, and in Part 2 analyses the novel and Bernard’s culminating vision.
An introduction to the novels of Virginia Woolf. In Part 1 Professor Brooks treats the writer’s special gifts in this literary genre, and her vision of experience. In Part 2 he considers Virginia Woolf’s...
Part 1: Professor Harold Brooks highlights the influences of Langland’s life and education on his work, sketches the criticism of 14th-century religious and social life found in ‘Piers Plowman’ and...
The threat of old age to the will and the heart: Professor Brooks comments on this problem posed by Yeats, the poet’s consideration of his self and achievements, and his adjustment to the limitations of...
1: Noting the influence of the literary interests and family background of Gilbert Murray on this play, Professor Harold Brooks examines the themes of material and spiritual power and the influence of these...
Professor Harold Brooks questions those views which see Eliot’s poem as one of despair and horror. He indicates the three main planes on which Eliot handles his criticism of modern society, and takes the...
Discusses the use and abuse of literary criticism.
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