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 Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, exploring its themes of beauty, love, and the power of poetry to confer immortality.
A combined reading and analysis of Hopkins’s Spring and Fall, exploring its themes of childhood innocence, the awareness of mortality, and Hopkins’s distinctive sprung rhythm.
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.
A combined reading and analysis of Hardy’s The Oxen, a Christmas poem exploring nostalgia, lost faith, and the yearning for a simpler rural past.
A combined reading and analysis of Hardy’s The Darkling Thrush, examining its themes of hope and despair at the turn of the century, and the unexpected song of the thrush in a winter landscape.
A combined reading and analysis of Hardy’s The Voice, a moving elegy exploring grief, memory, and the haunting presence of a lost love.
An illustrated reading of Hardy’s The Voice, accompanied by images evoking the poem’s landscape of grief, memory, and lost love.
A concise analysis of Arnold’s Dover Beach, covering its key themes of religious doubt, modernity, and the search for meaning in an uncertain world.
A combined reading and analysis of Arnold’s Dover Beach, exploring its themes of lost faith, the melancholy of the modern world, and the consolation of human love.