The first part of an analysis of Milton’s Lycidas, examining the poem’s pastoral conventions, its elegiac structure, and Milton’s meditation on the death of a fellow poet.
A reading of Milton’s Lycidas, one of the great elegies in English literature, mourning the death of Edward King and meditating on fame, grief, and religious faith.
A reading of Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress, one of the finest carpe diem poems in English, urging the beloved to seize the pleasures of life before time runs out.
A combined reading and analysis of Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress, examining its carpe diem argument, witty conceits, and the urgency of love in the face of mortality.
A combined reading and analysis of Donne’s The Sun Rising, exploring its witty metaphysical conceit, themes of love and the transcendence of time, and its characteristically bold opening.
A combined reading and analysis of the Witches’ Chant from Macbeth, focusing on how the trochaic tetrameter and rhyming couplets create an atmosphere of supernatural evil.
An experimental reggae setting of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, demonstrating how the poem’s themes of love and immortality translate into a contemporary musical form.
A combined reading and analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, exploring its themes of beauty, love, and the power of poetry to confer immortality.
An illustrated reading of Hopkins’s Spring and Fall, accompanied by images of autumn that complement the poem’s meditation on childhood, sorrow, and mortality.
A combined reading and analysis of the first sonnet of Swinburne’s Hermaphroditus, exploring its classical mythology, themes of gender and beauty, and its place in the Victorian Aesthetic movement.