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Victorian and Edwardian Poetry
17 April 2026
Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach - Reading & Analysis
A combined reading and analysis of Arnold's Dover Beach, exploring its themes of lost faith, the melancholy...
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Romantic Poetry
17 April 2026
Coleridge: Kubla Khan - Reading & Analysis
A combined reading and analysis of Coleridge's Kubla Khan, exploring its dreamlike vision of Xanadu,...
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Romantic Poetry
17 April 2026
Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey - Analysis
An analysis of Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey, examining its themes of memory, nature, and the development...
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Romantic Poetry
15 April 2026
Shelley: Ode to the West Wind - Reading & Analysis
A combined reading and analysis of Shelley's Ode to the West Wind, exploring its themes of nature, revolution,...
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Romantic Poetry
15 April 2026
Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn - An Analysis
An analysis of Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn, examining its themes of art, beauty, eternity, and the relationship...
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Medieval Poetry
17 April 2026
Medieval Lyric: Thou Wanderest in this False World - Reading
A reading of the anonymous medieval lyric Thou Wanderest in this False World, a religious meditation...
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Victorian and Edwardian Poetry
17 April 2026
Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach - Concise Analysis
A concise analysis of Arnold's Dover Beach, covering its key themes of religious doubt, modernity, and...
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Medieval Poetry
17 April 2026
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, Prologue 1-18 - Reading
A reading of the opening eighteen lines of Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the celebrated...
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Romantic Poetry
17 April 2026
William Blake: The Human Abstract - Reading
A reading of Blake's The Human Abstract from Songs of Experience, a dark counterpart to The Divine Image...
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Romantic Poetry
17 April 2026
Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey - Concise Analysis
A concise analysis of Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey, covering its key themes of nature, memory, and spiritual...
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Romantic Poetry
15 April 2026
Shelley: Ode to the West Wind - An Analysis
An analysis of Shelley's Ode to the West Wind, examining its themes of nature, revolution, and prophetic...
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Modern Poetry
17 April 2026
Jarrell: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner - Reading & Analysis
A combined reading and analysis of Jarrell's The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, one of the most powerful...
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Romantic Poetry
06 June 2026
Iron Maiden & Coleridge's Ancient Mariner
A colour-coded analysis of Iron Maiden's 1984 heavy metal adaptation of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,...
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Early Modern Poetry
17 April 2026
Milton: Lycidas - Reading
A reading of Milton's Lycidas, one of the great elegies in English literature, mourning the death of...
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Early Modern Poetry
17 April 2026
Donne: The Sun Rising - Reading & Analysis
A combined reading and analysis of Donne's The Sun Rising, exploring its witty metaphysical conceit,...
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Keats: Ode to a Nightingale – Experimental Setting to Music (Techno Trance), , , , , , , , , videobeauty escapism joy mortality nature nightingale sorrowiambic-pentameter ode-stanzalyric ode romantic
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales: The Prioress PART TWO: How Chaucer’s Ironic Intent Got Lost Over the Years, , , , , , , , videoalexander-pope chaucer-reception-history john-dryden john-foxe reformation romantic-medievalism thomas-speght victorian-hypocrisyvariousliterary-history reception-studies
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales: The Prioress PART ONE: Deconstructing the Prioress / Uncovering the Irony, , , , , , , , , videobenedictine-nuns courtly-love irony medieval-society prioress religious-hypocrisy satireiambic-pentameter rhyming-coupletsmedieval narrative-poetry satire
Match the Mariner: A Doré Memory Game, , , , , , , , , , , , gameancient-mariner coleridge engraving gustave-dore illustration interactive memory-game romantic-poetry visual-artballad iambic rhymeballad romantic supernatural
Iron Maiden’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” as a Doorway into Coleridge’s Poem, , , , , , , , , , , , , study-guide1798 1817 ancient-mariner coleridge gustave-dore heavy-metal iron-maiden popular-culture romantic-poetry steve-harrisballad iambic rhymeballad romantic supernatural
Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Gustave Doré: A Pictorial Guide, , , , , , , , , , , , , study-aid1798 1817 ancient-mariner coleridge engraving gustave-dore illustration romantic-poetry supernatural visual-artballad iambic rhymeballad romantic supernatural
Prosody: A Practical Guide — with examples from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , study-guideanapaest ancient-mariner ballad-metre coleridge dactyl iambic metre poetry-analysis prosody rhythm scansion spondee stress trochee versificationballad ballad-metre iambicreference study-guide
Iron Maiden & the Professor: Who’s Done More to Bring Young People to Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner?, , , , , , , , , , , , videoancient-mariner coleridge heavy-metal iron-maiden marginal-gloss narrative-voice popular-culture romantic-poetry steve-harrisballad iambic rhymeballad romantic supernatural
Iron Maiden & Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, , , , , , , , , , , , , study-aid1798 1817 ancient-mariner coleridge heavy-metal iron-maiden marginal-gloss popular-culture romantic-poetry steve-harrisballad iambic rhymeballad romantic supernatural
Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Textual Comparison: 1798 and 1817, , , , , , , , , , , , study-aid1798 1817 ancient-mariner coleridge lyrical-ballads marginal-gloss romantic-poetry sibylline-leaves textual-variantsballad iambic rhymeballad romantic supernatural
Shelley: Ode to the West Wind – Form and Technique, , , , , , , , , , , , , study-guidechange nature nature-poetry power prophetic-poetry revolution revolutionary-verse the-sublime windcanto iambic-pentameter sonnet-cycle terza-rimalyric ode romantic
John R. Yamamoto-Wilson: Chaucer’s Irony. The Case of the Prioress, , , , , , , flipbookcanterbury-tales chaucer irony medieval prioress satire scholarshipprosedigital-book scholarship
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, 1-18 – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , videocharacter irony medieval-society pilgrimage satire springiambic-pentameter rhyming-coupletsmedieval narrative-poetry
Edwin Brock: Five Ways to Kill a Man – Reading & Analysis (Playlist), , , , , , video-playlistdeath history modern-warfare satire violence warfree-versemodern war-poetry
Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey – Reading & Analysis (Playlist), , , , , , , video-playlistgrowth memory nature reflection spiritual timeblank-verse iambic-pentameterlyric romantic
William Blake: Poetry – Reading & Analysis (Playlist), , , , , , , , video-playlistevil experience god good innocence nature visionvariouslyric romantic visionary
Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn – Reading & Analysis (Playlist), , , , , , , , , video-playlistart art-poetry beauty classical ekphrastic-poetry eternity immortalityiambic-pentameter ode-stanzalyric ode romantic
Keats: To Autumn – Reading & Analysis (Playlist), , , , , , , , video-playlistautumn beauty harvest mortality nature seasonsiambic-pentameter ode-stanzalyric ode romantic
Keats: Ode to a Nightingale – Reading & Analysis (Playlist), , , , , , , , , video-playlistbeauty escapism joy mortality nature nightingale sorrowiambic-pentameter ode-stanzalyric ode romantic
Keats: Odes – Reading & Analysis (Playlist), , , , , , , , video-playlistart beauty immortality mortality nature odesiambic-pentameter ode-stanzalyric ode romantic
Various: Medieval Poetry – Reading & Analysis (Playlist), , , , , , , video-playlistdeath love lyric medieval religious romancevariouslyric medieval romance
Various: Experimental Poetry, Dramatised Readings, Musical Fusions – Playlist, , , , , video-playlistdramatised experimental fusion musical poetryvariousexperimental various
Coleridge: Kubla Khan – Reading & Analysis (Playlist), , , , , , , , , video-playlistdream exotic imagination nature pleasure-dome the-sublime visioniambic irregular-rhymelyric romantic visionary
Various: Christmas Carols Explained – Analysis, , , , , , , , videocarol christmas festive medieval religious traditioncarol-form variouscarol medieval religious-verse
Various: Ormulum, Agenbite of Inwit, The Canterbury Tales – Reading, , , , , , videolanguage-history medieval middle-english prose versevariouslyric medieval prose
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, Prologue 1-18 – Reading, , , , , , videocharacter medieval-society pilgrimage satire springiambic-pentameter rhyming-coupletsmedieval narrative-poetry
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , videochivalry courage honour medieval-romance temptation the-supernaturalalliterative-verse bob-and-wheelalliterative-poetry medieval-romance
Medieval Lyric: Thou Wanderest in this False World – Reading, , , , , , videomedieval mortality religious vanity worldlinessshort-lyriclyric medieval religious-verse
Medieval Lyric: I Have a Yong Suster – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , videocourtly-love love medieval playful riddleriddle-form short-lyriclyric medieval
Medieval Lyric: Wanne Mine Eyhnen Misten – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , videocontemplation death medieval mortality religiousalliterative-verse short-lyriclyric medieval religious-verse
Medieval Lyric: I Syng of a Mayden – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , , , , , videocarol devotional-verse marian-poetry mary medieval religious religious-poetry virgin-marycarol-form refraincarol lyric medieval religious-verse
Medieval Lyric: Westron Wynde – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , , videodesire longing love love-poetry medieval nature nature-poetryalliterative-verse short-lyriclyric medieval
Edwin Brock: Five Ways to Kill a Man – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , videodeath history modern-warfare satire violence warfree-versemodern war-poetry
Jarrell: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , , video-podcastdeath military violence war war-poetry wwiifree-verse short-lyricamerican modern war-poetry
W.B. Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium – Experimental Reading (Jazz), , , , , , , , videoaging art byzantine immortality soul spiritualiambic-pentameter ottawa-rimairish-poetry lyric modern
Milton: Lycidas – Analysis 2, , , , , , , , , videodeath elegy fame grief pastoral religionblank-verse irregular-rhyme pastoralearly-modern elegy pastoral
W.B. Yeats: Mad as the Mist and Snow – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , videoaging madness modern-irish-poetry mortality timefree-verse lyricirish-poetry lyric modern
Milton: Lycidas – Analysis 1, , , , , , , , , videodeath elegy fame grief pastoral religionblank-verse irregular-rhyme pastoralearly-modern elegy pastoral
Milton: Lycidas – Reading, , , , , , , , , videodeath elegy fame grief pastoral religionblank-verse irregular-rhyme pastoralearly-modern elegy pastoral
Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress – Reading, , , , , , , , videocarpe-diem love mortality seduction time witiambic-tetrameter rhyming-coupletsearly-modern lyric metaphysical-poetry
Donne: The Sun Rising – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , videoconceit love metaphysical religious-imagery sensualiambic-pentameter stanzaearly-modern lyric metaphysical-poetry
Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , , videocarpe-diem love mortality seduction time witiambic-tetrameter rhyming-coupletsearly-modern lyric metaphysical-poetry
Shakespeare: Sonnet 18 – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , , videobeauty immortality love nature poetry sonnetiambic-pentameter sonnetearly-modern lyric sonnet
Hopkins: Spring and Fall – Illustrated Reading, , , , , , , , videochildhood loss mortality mortality-poetry nature nature-poetry sorrowfalling-rhythm sprung-rhythmlyric victorian
Hopkins: Spring and Fall – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , , videochildhood loss mortality mortality-poetry nature nature-poetry sorrowfalling-rhythm sprung-rhythmlyric victorian
Swinburne: Hermaphroditus, Sonnet 1 – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , , videoaesthetic-poetry beauty classical gender mythology sensualityiambic-pentameter sonnetaesthetic-poetry sonnet victorian
Thomas Hardy: The Oxen – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , videochristmas faith loss nostalgia rural-life traditionballad-stanza iambiclyric victorian
Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , videodespair hope mortality nature new-century winterballad-stanza iambiclyric victorian
Thomas Hardy: The Voice – Illustrated Reading, , , , , , , videodeath grief loss love memory naturedactylic-metre irregularlyric victorian
Thomas Hardy: The Voice – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , videodeath grief loss love memory naturedactylic-metre irregularlyric victorian
Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach – Concise Analysis, , , , , , , , videofaith loss love melancholy modern-world nature the-seafree-verse irregular-rhymelyric victorian
Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , , videofaith loss love melancholy modern-world nature the-seafree-verse irregular-rhymelyric victorian
William Blake: Vala, or The Four Zoas (Extract) – Reading, , , , , , , videocreation epic mythology spiritual visionblank-verse epicepic romantic visionary
William Blake: A Poison Tree – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , videoanger experience moral repression revengeiambic rhyming-coupletslyric romantic songs-of-experience
William Blake: The Human Abstract – Reading, , , , , , , videoexperience human-nature love mercy peace pityrhyming-coupletslyric romantic songs-of-experience
William Blake: Never Seek to Tell Thy Love – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , videoexperience loss love relationships secrecyiambic short-lyriclyric romantic songs-of-experience
William Blake: The Tiger – Experimental Reading, , , , , , , , , videocreation evil experience god good innocence naturerhyming-couplets trochaic-tetrameterlyric romantic visionary
William Blake: The Tiger and The Lamb – Analysis, , , , , , , , , videocreation evil experience god good innocence naturerhyming-couplets trochaic-tetrameterlyric romantic visionary
Coleridge: Kubla Khan – Plain Reading, , , , , , , , , videodream exotic imagination nature pleasure-dome the-sublime visioniambic irregular-rhymelyric romantic visionary
Coleridge: The Preface to Kubla Khan – Analysis, , , , , , , , , videodream exotic imagination nature pleasure-dome the-sublime visioniambic irregular-rhymelyric romantic visionary
Coleridge: Kubla Khan – Illustrated Reading, , , , , , , , , videodream exotic imagination nature pleasure-dome the-sublime visioniambic irregular-rhymelyric romantic visionary
Coleridge: Kubla Khan – Analysis, , , , , , , , , videodream exotic imagination nature pleasure-dome the-sublime visioniambic irregular-rhymelyric romantic visionary
Coleridge: Kubla Khan – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , , , videodream exotic imagination nature pleasure-dome the-sublime visioniambic irregular-rhymelyric romantic visionary
Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey – Illustrated Reading, , , , , , , videogrowth memory nature reflection spiritual timeblank-verse iambic-pentameterlyric romantic
Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey – Abridged Reading, , , , , , , videogrowth memory nature reflection spiritual timeblank-verse iambic-pentameterlyric romantic
Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey – Concise Analysis, , , , , , , videogrowth memory nature reflection spiritual timeblank-verse iambic-pentameterlyric romantic
Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey – Analysis, , , , , , , videogrowth memory nature reflection spiritual timeblank-verse iambic-pentameterlyric romantic
Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , videogrowth memory nature reflection spiritual timeblank-verse iambic-pentameterlyric romantic
Keats: To Autumn – Illustrated Reading, , , , , , , , videoautumn beauty harvest mortality nature seasonsiambic-pentameter ode-stanzalyric ode romantic
Keats: To Autumn – Analysis, , , , , , , , videoautumn beauty harvest mortality nature seasonsiambic-pentameter ode-stanzalyric ode romantic
Keats: To Autumn – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , , videoautumn beauty harvest mortality nature seasonsiambic-pentameter ode-stanzalyric ode romantic
Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn – Reading, , , , , , , , , videoart art-poetry beauty classical ekphrastic-poetry eternity immortalityiambic-pentameter ode-stanzalyric ode romantic
Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , , , videoart art-poetry beauty classical ekphrastic-poetry eternity immortalityiambic-pentameter ode-stanzalyric ode romantic
Keats: Ode to a Nightingale – Illustrated Reading, , , , , , , , , videobeauty escapism joy mortality nature nightingale sorrowiambic-pentameter ode-stanzalyric ode romantic
Keats: Ode to a Nightingale – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , , , videobeauty escapism joy mortality nature nightingale sorrowiambic-pentameter ode-stanzalyric ode romantic
Jarrell: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner – A Reading and Analysis, , , , , , , , video-podcastdeath military violence war war-poetry wwiifree-verse short-lyricamerican modern war-poetry
Swinburne: Hermaphroditus – A Reading and Analysis, , , , , , , , videoaesthetic-poetry beauty classical gender mythology sensualityiambic-pentameter sonnetaesthetic-poetry sonnet victorian
Donne: The Sun Rising – A Reading and Analysis, , , , , , , videoconceit love metaphysical religious-imagery sensualiambic-pentameter stanzaearly-modern lyric metaphysical-poetry
I Synge of a Mayden – A Reading, , , , , , , , , , , videocarol devotional-verse marian-poetry mary medieval religious religious-poetry virgin-marycarol-form refraincarol lyric medieval religious-verse
Westron Wynde – A Reading, , , , , , , , videodesire longing love love-poetry medieval nature nature-poetryalliterative-verse short-lyriclyric medieval
Hopkins: Spring and Fall – Analysis, , , , , , , , videochildhood loss mortality mortality-poetry nature nature-poetry sorrowfalling-rhythm sprung-rhythmlyric victorian
Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn – An Analysis, , , , , , , , , videoart art-poetry beauty classical ekphrastic-poetry eternity immortalityiambic-pentameter ode-stanzalyric ode romantic
Shelley: Ode to the West Wind Canto I – Experimental Setting to Music (Heavy Metal/Rap), , , , , , , , , , , , , videochange nature nature-poetry power prophetic-poetry revolution revolutionary-verse the-sublime windcanto iambic-pentameter sonnet-cycle terza-rimalyric ode romantic
Shelley: Ode to the West Wind – Reading & Analysis (Playlist), , , , , , , , , , , , , video-playlistchange nature nature-poetry power prophetic-poetry revolution revolutionary-verse the-sublime windcanto iambic-pentameter sonnet-cycle terza-rimalyric ode romantic
Shelley: Ode to the West Wind – Reading & Analysis, , , , , , , , , , , , , videochange nature nature-poetry power prophetic-poetry revolution revolutionary-verse the-sublime windcanto iambic-pentameter sonnet-cycle terza-rimalyric ode romantic
Shelley: Ode to the West Wind – A Reading, , , , , , , , , , , , , videochange nature nature-poetry power prophetic-poetry revolution revolutionary-verse the-sublime windcanto iambic-pentameter sonnet-cycle terza-rimalyric ode romantic
Shelley: Ode to the West Wind – An Analysis, , , , , , , , , , , , , videochange nature nature-poetry power prophetic-poetry revolution revolutionary-verse the-sublime windcanto iambic-pentameter sonnet-cycle terza-rimalyric ode romantic