A technical companion to the video analysis: how Shelley constructed “Ode to the West Wind” using the ode form, sonnet cycle structure, and terza rima, with discussion questions.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey, including readings, analysis, and an illustrated reading.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Blake’s poetry, including The Tiger, The Lamb, A Poison Tree, Never Seek to Tell Thy Love, The Human Abstract, and an extract from Vala.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn, including a combined reading and analysis, a standalone analysis, and a plain reading.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Keats’s To Autumn, including a combined reading and analysis, a standalone analysis, and an illustrated reading.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale, including a combined reading and analysis and an illustrated reading.
A playlist bringing together all videos on medieval poetry, including anonymous lyrics, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and readings from Chaucer and other Middle English texts.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Keats’s Odes, covering the Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, and To Autumn.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, including readings, analysis of the poem and its preface, and an illustrated reading.
Readings from a selection of Middle English texts including the Ormulum, the Agenbite of Inwit, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, illustrating the diversity of medieval English prose and verse.