A colour-coded analysis of Iron Maiden’s 1984 heavy metal adaptation of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, identifying what Steve Harris drew verbatim from Coleridge’s poem, what he borrowed from the 1817 marginal gloss, and what he invented himself.
A complete parallel-text comparison of the 1798 and 1817 versions of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, with the 1817 marginal gloss displayed alongside and changes between versions highlighted throughout.
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 combined reading and analysis of Hardy’s The Oxen, a Christmas poem exploring nostalgia, lost faith, and the yearning for a simpler rural past.
A combined reading and analysis of Hardy’s The Darkling Thrush, examining its themes of hope and despair at the turn of the century, and the unexpected song of the thrush in a winter landscape.
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 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.
A plain reading of Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, allowing the poem’s visionary language and exotic imagery to speak for itself.
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.