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.
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.
A plain reading of Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, allowing the poem’s visionary language and exotic imagery to speak for itself.
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 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 analysis of Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, examining its visionary imagery, themes of imagination and the sublime, and its famously unfinished nature.
A combined reading and analysis of Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, exploring its dreamlike vision of Xanadu, the pleasure dome, and the nature of poetic imagination.
An illustrated reading of Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey, accompanied by images of the Wye Valley that inspired this celebrated Romantic meditation on nature and memory.
An abridged reading of Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey, presenting key passages from this landmark Romantic poem about nature, memory, and spiritual reflection.