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Readings from Thomas Hardy, Gerald Manley Hopkins, E A Houseman and Rudyard Kipling. Ashcroft and Glover read from Hardy: ‘The Ruined Maid’, ‘In Church’, ‘At Castle Boterel’, ‘I Looked into my...
Series looking at the poetry of the past six centuries. 1: Establishes the continuity and variety of English verse throughout the past six centuries using extracts from poems, with readings from Chaucer,...
Recorded at the Poetry Society, 1967. Contents: Side 1: ‘Middlesex’, ‘Eunice’, ‘The Irish Unionist’s Farewell to Greta Hellstrom 1922’, ‘Caprice’, from ‘Beside the Seaside’; ‘Business...
A reunion of the Beat poets at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Introduced by Allen Ginsberg, the film shows the ease of interchange betwen the poets,...
An historian’s view by Professor J P Kenyon - a recording of a public lecture on the tercentenary of the poet’s death.
Professor Brooks considers the origin of the satire and the choice of Flecknoe for the attack upon Shadwell. He then examines the central concept of the poem, its special qualities as a specimen of the...
Professor Brooks takes his listeners on a guided tour of the poem.
The threat of old age to the will and the heart: Professor Brooks comments on this problem posed by Yeats, the poet’s consideration of his self and achievements, and his adjustment to the limitations of...
Part 1: Professor Harold Brooks highlights the influences of Langland’s life and education on his work, sketches the criticism of 14th-century religious and social life found in ‘Piers Plowman’ and...
Part 1: Professor Brooks concentrates on the story, its outstanding characteristics and how the writer has combined the original stories of the challenge and the temptation. Part 2: Professor Brooks looks at...
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