A playlist bringing together all videos on Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, including readings, analysis of the poem and its preface, and an illustrated reading.
The second part of an analysis of Milton’s Lycidas, exploring its themes of fame, religious consolation, and the place of the poem in Milton’s development as a poet.
The first part of an analysis of Milton’s Lycidas, examining the poem’s pastoral conventions, its elegiac structure, and Milton’s meditation on the death of a fellow poet.
A reading of Milton’s Lycidas, one of the great elegies in English literature, mourning the death of Edward King and meditating on fame, grief, and religious faith.
A concise analysis of Arnold’s Dover Beach, covering its key themes of religious doubt, modernity, and the search for meaning in an uncertain world.
A combined reading and analysis of Arnold’s Dover Beach, exploring its themes of lost faith, the melancholy of the modern world, and the consolation of human 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.
An analysis of Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, examining its visionary imagery, themes of imagination and the sublime, and its famously unfinished nature.