BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
Over a long career Robert Graves proved a prolific writer across a variety of genres, producing historical novels, classical translations and criticism, but he regarded himself as primarily a poet. Drawing...
Simon Schama celebrates the life and work of one of Britain’s greatest love poets, John Donne. For Schama, Donne is the poet who transformed English poetry through his emotional honesty and skilled use of...
WIth ‘Leaves of Grass’, Walt Whitman offered up his poetry and his persona as a reflection of the America he saw; daring, noble, naive, brutish, sexual, frightening and flawed. This film tells...
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...
This double CD draws on the broadcasts Ted Hughes made for schools, particularly the highly praised LISTENING AND WRITING series, later published as ‘Poetry in the Making’, in which Hughes aimed to...
T.S. Eliot described George Barker as a genius, and W.B. Yeats compared his rhythmic invention to that of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Drawing primarily on previously unpublished BBC broadcasts spanning the years...
Edith Sitwell was the queen of twentieth-century English poetry, majestically attired in performance and distinctly regal in her delivery. Drawing on previously unpublished BBC broadcasts, this CD presents a...
Sir John Betjeman takes an unashamedly nostalgic journey through his earliest memories, in a classic television documentary based on his autobiography. He revisits scenes of his childhood including his prep...
A 2-disc homage to the enigmatic poet, actor, director, playwright, philosopher, visionary, madman Antonin Artaud - one of the most influential figures of 20th century art, theatre and cinema. MY LIFE AND...
This short film was commissioned for the Sylvia Plath 75th Year International Symposium ‘Creative Process and Product’ held at Oxford University in 2007. The film focuses on previously unresearched...
You are currently searching in Find DVD. Search all the BUFVC's collections for '"poetry"' in All fields.
Learning on Screen