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The Sleeper: Edgar Allan Poe
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The second half of this reading is illustrated with footage of the sensationally beautiful memorial to Barbara de Mauley in Hatherop church, Cotswolds, sculpted by Raffaell...
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Spirits of the Dead: Edgar Allan Poe
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Poe's skill as a lyricist is evident in this beautiful, elegaic poem. As an inveterate wanderer of churchyards at night, and as one whose spirituality belongs there and no...
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Annabel Lee: Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe's poems are, like his prose, masterpieces of the deceptively simple. 'Annabel Lee' begins like a traditional Border ballad, or a sentimental song, but the f...
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The Conqueror Worm: Edgar Allan Poe
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The images which illustrate the beginning and the end of this film are the cadaver brass of Ralph Hamsterley at Oddington, north Oxfordshire (opening titles), and the two-t...
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I dreaded walking: John Clare
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Trespass is an important theme in John Clare's poetry. The Enclosure Acts transformed the landscape around his native Helpston, and places where he had wandered freely as ...
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The Road Not Taken (Version 2): Robert Frost
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This much lighter interpretation of the poem appears to have been the one intended by Frost at the time of writing. He was taken aback to discover that audiences at his re...
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Overheard on a Salt Marsh: Harold Monro
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Giles Watson reads 'Overheard on a Salt Marsh', by Harold Monro. Filmed at Old Town Bay, Isle of Wight.
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Tall Nettles: Edward Thomas
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"Passions of sublimity/ Belong to plain and simpler things," wrote John Clare. The ability to apprehend beauty in the commonplace is a blessing much to be desired, for it ...
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I Am: John Clare
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My reading of John Clare's ironically most-anthologised - and in many ways most atypical poem is more angry than most. I cannot see how Clare can have failed to be in a st...
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Remembrances: John Clare
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Giles Watson reads John Clare's 'Remembrances', one amongst a number of John Clare's poems which struck an environmentalist chord a few decades before Hopkins's 'Binsey Pop...
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