Making of Poetry, The

Synopsis

Shows how poetry comes to be written. By exploring the lives of a number of English Poets - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Hopkins, Hardy and Owen - together with some of the poems they wrote, this CD-ROM shows how poetry grows out of this experience. A real insight into the creative process is gained by looking closely at manuscript versions. Watching, for example, how the poet alters a first draft, sometimes again and again, until a perfect form is achieved. A good example of this process is William Wordsworth in The Prelude.

Examples of how life-experience such as an incident in the poet’s life, perhaps insignificant to others, gives rise to a great poem, are provided by Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats and The Wreck of The Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins. The CD-ROM also shows how other people sometimes play a part in the creation of poetry, by suggesting, for example, the idea of a poem to the poet, or, on occasion, actually rescuing the poem (The Nightingale Ode) from oblivion by saving the pieces of paper on which it is written from being lost or destroyed. On the other hand, Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, coming to the poet in a dream, was interrupted as he wrote it down at a farm on the north side of Exmoor by ‘a person on business from Porlock’, and after he had gone, Coleridge couldn’t remember the rest.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Year of production

2000

Notes

Apple version requires Internet Explorer 5 or above

Subjects

English language and literature

Keywords

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Hardy, Thomas; Hopkins, Gerard Manley; Keats, John (1795-1821); literature - English; poetry; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); writing; Owen, Wilfred

Distribution Formats

Type

CD-ROM

Format

Hybrid

Price

£69.00

Availability

Sale

Year

2003

Distributor

Name

AVP

Email

info@avp.co.uk

Web

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Phone

01291 625439

Fax

01291 629671

Address

School Hill Centre
Chepstow
Monmouthshire
NP16 5PH

Notes

Use for: Audio Visual Productions. Ceased trading.