A playlist bringing together all videos on Keats’s To Autumn, including a combined reading and analysis, a standalone analysis, and an illustrated reading.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale, including a combined reading and analysis and an illustrated reading.
A playlist bringing together all videos on medieval poetry, including anonymous lyrics, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and readings from Chaucer and other Middle English texts.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Keats’s Odes, covering the Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, and To Autumn.
A playlist of experimental poetry videos featuring dramatised readings and musical fusions that bring canonical poems to life in unexpected ways.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, including readings, analysis of the poem and its preface, and an illustrated reading.
An analysis of a selection of Christmas carols, exploring their medieval origins, religious significance, and the literary and musical traditions that shaped them.
Readings from a selection of Middle English prose and verse texts including the Ormulum, the Agenbite of Inwit, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, illustrating the range and diversity of medieval English writing.
A reading of the opening eighteen lines of Chaucer’s General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the celebrated seasonal description that sets the scene for the pilgrimage to Canterbury.
A combined reading and analysis of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, exploring the poem’s themes of chivalry, honour, temptation, and the supernatural, and its distinctive alliterative verse form.