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  1. In Geothe’s Footsteps

    Date released
    6 Mar 1933
    Series name
    Pathetone Weekly
    Issue no
    154
    NoS ID
    122712
    Story no
    1 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    A century has passed sicne the death of Johan Wolfgang Goethe, Germany’s greatest .... We will visit the scene where this amazing poet, statesman, scientist lived and worked.

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  2. Thomas Chatterton: The Myth of the Doomed Poet (2015)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    Poet Michael Symmons Roberts and Queen guitarist Brian May explore 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton, whose early death epitomises the image of the "tortured genius".

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  3. Shakespeare 1564-1616 (1984 Video)

    aka: Maturing Shakespeare, The

    Series
    Six Centuries of Verse
    Director
    Richard Mervyn
    Producer
    Richard Mervyn

    16-part television series, presented by John Gielgud, on the history of poetry in the English language. This episode follows Shakespeare’s development as dramatist and poet. Presents extracts from Romeo...

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  4. Six Centuries of Verse

    Date
    30 Jan 2014, 10:12
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    2013. GB. 2 x DVD. 400 minutes. Network Distributing. Certificate E. Price: £19.99 About the reviewer: Dr James McGrath lectures in Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. His poems appear in...

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  5. Guide Me, Orion!

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    25
    NoS ID
    325350
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Space age Noah’s Ark - a twentieth century poet’s vision of the future expressed in pop. The LP by the ‘Flaming Youth’ leaves this world and all its problems behind.

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  6. Guide Me, Orion!

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    25
    NoS ID
    329402
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Space age Noah’s Ark - a twentieth century poet’s vision of the future expressed in pop. The LP by the ‘Flaming Youth’ leaves this world and all its problems behind.

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  7. 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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  8. Ted Hughes- Poems and Short Stories: The Spoken Word (2008)

    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD), £15.50

    The first of a pair of 2-CD sets drawn from the BBC radio broadcasts of Ted Hughes features live and studio recordings of the poet introducing and reading his own work. The recordings include his earliest...

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  9. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2009)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195.00

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an alliterative poem which was written in the late fourteenth century by an anonymous poet. Simon Armitage presents this programme which goes on the trail of the Gawain...

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  10. 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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