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Byron Centenary - The Anniversary of the Famous Poet’s Death Was Solemnized in London by the Poetry Society

Date released

24 Apr 1924

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1366

NoS ID

079705

Story no

2 / 6

MLV pan wreath laid on memorial. MV pan people at ceremony, including Greek orthodox archbishop. MLV man lays wreath, starts speech. LV pan statue and back of crowd.

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John Clare: A Photographic Journey

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, unknown), £5.00

The DVD features photographs of Clare countryside by Peter Moyse and includes selected readings of Clare’s poetry and prose. Also included are reflections on Clare’s life by interviews with poet, author...

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Shakespeare’s Poetry (2012 Audio)

Poetry celebration of Shakespeare with focus on his sonnets and the use of poetry in his plays. Poetry readings by actors Ion Caramitru and Michael Pennington. The following sonnets and extracts were read at...

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Poetry and Landscape (1993 Video)

Producer

Robert Philip

Subject

Art; English language and literature; History

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at 18th-century landscape paintings and at poetry which describes landscapes, in the context of their social and political background. He argues that landscape was seen as providing a metaphor for...

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Stephen Spender with Al Alvarez (1986 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

Al Alvarez interviews Stephen Spender on his own work and ideas about poetry, as well as his close friendship with W H Auden. The discussion also considers general issues such as the poet’s place in...

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Phoenix and the Turtle, The (1960 Audio)

Director

George Rylands

The Phoenix and the Turtle directed by George Rylands for the University of Cambridge Marlowe Society and read by John Burrow. Other poems are read by other readers.

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Poets and People (3 Parts) (1987 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30, 45, 45 min.

Part 1: Douglas Dunn reads his poems to a mixed-age audience at a community school on a deprived housing estate outside Edinburgh. An account of Dunn’s background is illustrated by stills of places...

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Early Edison Recording of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 10 minutes), £3.95

A wax cylinder recording of Tennyson made in 1888 under the direction of Thomas Edison himself, who sent a representative to England to record the poet four years before Tennyson’s death in 1892. Tennyson...

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Confucius (2004)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £13.74

Confucius was not exactly an author in the way that other writers in the series are. His ideas however, expressed in his Analects (reported sayings), have been the backbone of the Chinese psyche ever since...

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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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