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 reading of the opening eighteen lines of Chaucer’s General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the celebrated seasonal description that sets the scene for the pilgrimage to Canterbury.
An experimental jazz reading of Yeats’s Sailing to Byzantium, bringing the poem’s themes of aging, art, and the soul’s journey toward immortality to life through music.
A combined reading and analysis of Donne’s The Sun Rising, exploring its witty metaphysical conceit, themes of love and the transcendence of time, and its characteristically bold opening.
An experimental reggae setting of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, demonstrating how the poem’s themes of love and immortality translate into a contemporary musical form.
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 the first sonnet of Swinburne’s Hermaphroditus, exploring its classical mythology, themes of gender and beauty, and its place in the Victorian Aesthetic movement.
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.
A concise analysis of Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey, covering its key themes of nature, memory, and spiritual growth in an accessible format.