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From the first days of recording the voices of poets reading their own work have been thought worthy of permanent record. This CD looks back at the earliest English-language poets whose voices have survived,...
This double audio CD contains works by poets listed in the National Curriculum. They include William Blake, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Herbert, Robert Herrick,...
TS Eliot reads some of his most celebrated poems, including ‘The Wasteland’. In this poem, Eliot expresses his view that the Western city had become a stale and sterile desert. In ‘The Four...
Dr Barry Spurr of the University of Sydney traces the influences on T S Eliot’s poetry from Eliot’s early years and continues through his turbulent career. Includes readings from Eliot’ poetry.
Investigates some of the ways in which images of England were developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as a means of justifying and maintaining imperialism in the face of increasing doubt and...
A complete recording of T S Eliot’s unfinished verse drama ‘Sweeney Agonistes’.
Explores the concept of modernism in relation to T S Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ and Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’. Looks first at poetry and then the same areas in the novel. The language of...
VOICES AND VISIONS is a series in which the lives and works of 13 renowned American poets are interpreted through dramatics readings, archival photographs, dance, performances and interviews. Illustrative...
Best known for his novel, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess talks about being told by his doctor in 1959 that he had a fatal brain tumor and only had a year to live. That was when Burgess became a...
Relates the writer to dramatic tradition and to his society. The plays are approached as theatrical experience as well as literary texts, using readings to illuminate questions of theme and style. A...
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