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  1. D’Annunzio Last Rites

    Date released
    7 Mar 1938
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    733
    NoS ID
    035800
    Story no
    2 / 7
    Extras
    1 shot list

    Mussolini attends funeral of poet-adventurer who was Italy’s greatest Great War hero.

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  2. Britten: War Requiem (2012)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £29.99

    2012 sees the 50th anniversary of Britten’s War Requiem and the building it was written for, Coventry Cathedral. The work combines the words of the Latin Mass for the Dead and poems by the First World War...

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  3. Star Cross’d: Laura Dockrill’s Romeo and Juliet (2016 Video)

    Series
    Shakespeare Lives 2016
    Director
    Rick Stanton; Hector
    Producer
    Penny Gabriel

    STAR CROSS’D is poet, writer and illustrator Laura Dockrill’s contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet. The film is set on a windswept English beach, where ‘two houses, both alike in common crime’ wage...

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  4. Voice of the Poet: W.H. Auden (1999)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 60 minutes), $19.95 (CD)

    A collection of recordings made over many years. The sometimes indistinct words in this rare audio collection are accompanied by text for each of the 23 selections. The booklet also includes a substantial...

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  5. 'They Walked and Talked ...' a Dymock Poets’ Collection (2010)

    Director
    Rachel Plant
    Producer
    Cate Luck
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £10.00

    On the north-west borders of Gloucestershire, in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of the First World War, a literary community was formed which came to represent a significant development in the...

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  6. Turned Toward the Sun (2015)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £6.98

    Documentary about the true-life story of British writer and poet Micky Burn. Born in Mayfair in 1912, his father worked for the Royal family. He became the lover of the communist spy Guy Burgess, and would...

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  7. War Requiem (2008)

    Director
    Derek Jarman
    Subject
    English language and literature; History; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £19.99

    Based on the life of Wilfred Owen, the poet, who died in 1918, this film is a blend of Benjamin Britten’s music, Owen’s poetry and director Derek Jarman’s visuals. The film includes wartime footage...

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  8. Seeing New Englandly

    Producer
    Ernie Urvater
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 57 minutes), $19.95

    SEEING NEW ENGLANDLY, the second programme in the series "Angles of a Landscape: Perspectives on Emily Dickinson," explores the poet’s education, her lifelong interest in science and literature, her...

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  9. Dylan Thomas: The War Films Anthology (2006)

    Subject
    Film Studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 106 minutes), £15.99

    The world-renowned poet Dylan Thomas made a little-known but valuable contribution to Britain’s war effort scripting powerful propaganda films for the Ministry of Information. This anthology collects...

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  10. Opium (2011)

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £10.00

    Opium is a drug with two faces. It causes violent disputes, wars and crime, but can make life worth living for those with terrible illnesses. Before opium was synthesized into heroin, medical use of the drug...

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