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Part 1: ‘Odysseus: the Greatest Hero of them All’ is a sequence designed to compare and contrast with the original, but looks at the art of storytelling as well as at ‘the story’. ‘Storytelling at...
A video lecture by Dr Barry Spurr of the University of Sydney, who presents his views on the life and poetry of Sylvia Plath. Includes readings of Plath’s poetry.
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.
An anecdotal video guide to the chemical elements set to the poetry of Roger McGough. He becomes each element in turn, changing his persona to reflet their unique properties. until he ends up in the ordered...
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...
A drama/dance adaptation of a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. By drawing on elements of African culture such as music, sorcery and magic, it tells of a spiritual journey of an African woman taken in...
Using a series of monologues based on extracts from Hopkins’ letters, journals and poems, traces his changing mood from youthful religious fervour to the confused isolation of his final years in Dublin.
Yeats lived through one of the most turbulent periods of Irish history, from the downfall of Parnell to the foundation of the Irish nation state. Presents both the historical context and Yeats’ own...
Looks at the development of modern politics in Pakistan through the eyes of its premier poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz who died in 1984. The story is told through interviews, poems, songs and cinema clips.
Discusses the visits made to the Alps by Wordsworth in 1790 and by Byron and Shelley in 1816 and their different responses to the grandeur of the scenery. Looks in detail at three works: Book VI of...
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