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1. The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art (handout) |
First lecture in the Oscar Wilde series in which Sos Eltis talks about Wilde's life and his work,… |
Sos Eltis |
| 12 |
What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls? |
Some film and tv adaptations of Jane Austen's novels might give the impression that the stories are… |
Sandie Byrne |
| 13 |
What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls? |
Some film and tv adaptations of Jane Austen's novels might give the impression that the stories are… |
Sandie Byrne |
| 14 |
Smallpox in poetry |
Smallpox was rife in the eighteenth century, leaving its mark both on its sufferers, and on the… |
Elizabeth Atkinson |
| 15 |
The poetry of war |
Explores the aesthetics and impact of war poetry in the early eighteenth century, focussing on… |
Abigail Williams |
| 16 |
The Ladle: a comic poem |
Matthew Prior's The Ladle was one of the most popular poems of the eighteenth century. This podcast… |
Louise Curran |
| 17 |
Music in miscellanies |
Much popular music of the eighteenth century is found in poetic miscellanies. But how was it… |
Giles Lewin |
| 18 |
Pastoral Poetry |
Introduces the poetry of rural life, and its debt to classical sources. |
Kathleen Lawton-Trask |
| 19 |
Politics in poetry |
This podcast explores the culture of Jacobitism in the eighteenth century, using a popular ballad |
John McTague |
| 20 |
The life of epigrams |
This podcasts introduces the popular eighteenth century epigram |
Dianne Mitchell |
