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 Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, including readings, analysis of the poem and its preface, and an illustrated reading.
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.
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.
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.