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  1. Secrets of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, The (2016)

    Subject
    Music

    Ian Hislop and John Eliot Gardiner present a documentary about the circumstances behind the writing of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. [89 minutes]

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  2. Poetry: Between the Lines - The Romantics (2015)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    Hip-hop artist Akala explores the language, form and themes of the Romantic era, and explores the effect it has had in shaping our society. Among the poets discussed are Wordsworth, Byron, Blake, Shelley and...

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  3. Thomas Chatterton: The Myth of the Doomed Poet (2015)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    Poet Michael Symmons Roberts and Queen guitarist Brian May explore 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton, whose early death epitomises the image of the "tortured genius".

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  4. Romantic Spirit, The (2011)

    Director
    Daniel Lander
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Literature; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 420 minutes), $39.49

    A fourteen-part documentary television series made in 1983 about the history of the Romantic movement in art,music and literature on 7 DVDs. Individual programmes are: BATTLE OF T HE STAGE- Plays of...

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  5. Romantics, The: Complete Series (2006)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; History; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £15.00

    A compilation of three programmes exploring ‘The Romantics’. FROM REVOLUTION TO NATURE - This film traces the ‘birth’ of the individual in modern society. It begins with Jean Jacques Rousseau who...

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  6. Lake Poets, The: William Wordsworth (2004)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £14.99

    The term ‘Lake poets’ was first used in the August 1817 ‘Edinburgh Review’ to describe William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey in a derogatory manner. History now regards the...

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  7. Wordsworth’s Spots of Time (2003)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC, 57 minutes), £29.99 (inclusive)

    William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a key figure in the English Romantic movement. His ideas about language revolutionised modern definitions of poetry and his love of nature helped to shape the modern...

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  8. George Romney (2002)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 35 minutes), £12.99

    George Romney (1734-1802) was a key figure in British art in the late eighteenth century. A contemporary of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, he was a fashionable, prolific and at times dazzling...

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  9. History of Art, The (6 Parts) (2000 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, 6 videocassettes. VHS. col. 6 x 30 min., 2000 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p) each 2000 sale: £149.95 (inclusive) set

    A series chronicling the development and history of art from medieval times to the 20th-century, with analysis and interpretation by Chris Muir and Dr George Speake. 1: The flourishing of secular art under...

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  10. Romantic Poets, The (2000 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2004 sale: £16.90 (+p&p +VAT)

    A study of the poets of the Romantic period, focusing particularly on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron and Keats. Provides an introduction to a movement that reflected the general shift in attitude in the early...

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