A combined reading and analysis of Hopkins’s Spring and Fall, exploring its themes of childhood innocence, the awareness of mortality, and Hopkins’s distinctive sprung rhythm.
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.
An illustrated reading of Hardy’s The Voice, accompanied by images evoking the poem’s landscape of grief, memory, and lost love.
A combined reading and analysis of Hardy’s The Voice, a moving elegy exploring grief, memory, and the haunting presence of a lost love.
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.
An experimental reading of Blake’s The Tiger, bringing the poem’s fierce energy and trochaic rhythms to life through a dramatic performance.
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.
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.