A reading of an extract from Blake’s epic prophetic work Vala, or The Four Zoas, offering a glimpse into his ambitious mythological vision of creation and spiritual conflict.
A combined reading and analysis of Blake’s A Poison Tree, examining its moral allegory about anger, repression, and the destructive consequences of concealed resentment.
A reading of Blake’s The Human Abstract from Songs of Experience, a dark counterpart to The Divine Image exploring the origins of cruelty and moral hypocrisy.
A combined reading and analysis of Blake’s Never Seek to Tell Thy Love, a short lyric from Songs of Experience exploring the dangers of repressed and expressed love.
An experimental reading of Blake’s The Tiger, bringing the poem’s fierce energy and trochaic rhythms to life through a dramatic performance.
A plain reading of Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, allowing the poem’s visionary language and exotic imagery to speak for itself.
An analysis of Blake’s The Tiger alongside The Lamb, exploring the tension between innocence and experience and the Romantic vision of creation and the divine.
An analysis of Coleridge’s preface to Kubla Khan, examining his account of the poem’s composition in a drug-induced dream and what it tells us about Romantic theories of imagination.
An illustrated reading of Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, accompanied by images evoking the exotic splendour of Xanadu and the poem’s visionary dreamscape.
An analysis of Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, examining its visionary imagery, themes of imagination and the sublime, and its famously unfinished nature.