A playlist bringing together all videos on Edwin Brock’s Five Ways to Kill a Man, including the combined reading and analysis.
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 combined reading and analysis of the anonymous medieval lyric Wanne Mine Eyhnen Misten, a short contemplation on death and mortality written in Middle English.
A combined reading and analysis of Edwin Brock’s Five Ways to Kill a Man, a satirical war poem tracing the history of human violence from crucifixion to modern warfare.
A combined reading and analysis of Jarrell’s The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, one of the most powerful short poems of the Second World War, exploring its brutal imagery of dehumanisation and death.
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 combined reading and analysis of Hardy’s The Voice, a moving elegy exploring grief, memory, and the haunting presence of a lost love.
An illustrated reading of Hardy’s The Voice, accompanied by images evoking the poem’s landscape of grief, memory, and lost love.