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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks A pacquet from Parnassus: or, a collection of papers https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Essays Miscellanies & 18th century print culture https://digitalmiscellaniesindex.org
Pictures Ezra Pound Passport https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Letter from W B Yeats to Ezra Pound https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Cathay title page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Ezra Pound 1945 'mug shot' https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
eBooks The Divine Comedy: Paradise https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dante/d19pa/
eBooks The Divine Comedy: Purgatory https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dante/d19pu/
eBooks The Divine Comedy: Hell https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dante/d19he/
eBooks Poems and ballads https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Ring and the Book https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/browning/robert/ring/
eBooks Dramatic Romances https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/browning/robert/dramatic/
eBooks Dramatic Lyrics https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/browning/robert/lyrics/
eBooks Paracelsus https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/browning/robert/paracelsus/
Essays Ezra Pound Rebecca Beasley
Other Slimescapes (article) Santanu Das https://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/slimescapes/
Audio DH Lawrence: A Postcolonial Writer? Peter McDonald https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 2: Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim Peter McDonald https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 1: Conrad and Chinua Achebe Peter McDonald https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Other Wilfred Owen: 'Futility' Tim Kendall https://war-poets.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/wilfred-owen-futility.html
Other Mary Borden Tim Kendall https://war-poets.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/mary-borden.html
Other Gilbert Frankau Tim Kendall https://war-poets.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/gilbert-frankau.html
Other The Dying Kiss: Gender and Intimacy in the Trenches of World War I Santanu Das https://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/the-dying-kiss-gender-and-inti…
Other Truth-telling versus literary allusion in David Jones’s ‘In Parenthesis’ (1937) Anna Johnson https://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/memoryofwar/truth-telling-versus-literary-al…
Other War Horse Poetry Tim Kendall https://war-poets.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/war-horse-poetry.html
Other Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen Tim Kendall https://war-poets.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/ivor-gurney-isaac-rosenberg-wilfred.ht…
Other Combat Gnosticism and the Woman Poets of the First World War Tim Kendall https://war-poets.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/combat-gnosticism-and-woman-poet-of.ht…
Pictures Wilfred Owen Grave https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Essays Wilfred Owen - biography Stuart Lee, Stephanie Fishwick https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/owen
Audio Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott Dominic Davies, Jason Allen-Paisant https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The language of Shakespeare Kate O'Connor https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Understanding Shakespeare Nick Lyons https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Two Gentlemen of Verona: The view from the Director Kate O'Connor https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Tempest: For you am I this patient log-man Dylan Townley, Archie Cornish https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Tempest: Our revels now are ended Dylan Townley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Conveying Shakespeare's meaning Dylan Townley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Tempest: Prospero Dylan Townley, Archie Cornish https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Tempest: Direction and interpretation Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Teaching Shakespeare in Schools Joyti Chandegra https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Victorians: Life and Death (lecture) Richard Evans https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-victorians-life-and-death
Video The Victorians: Religion and Science (lecture) Richard Evans https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-victorians-religion-and-scien…
Video The Victorians: Time and Space (lecture) Richard Evans https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-victorians-time-and-space
Video The Victorians: Empire and Race (lecture) Richard Evans https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-victorians-empire-and-race
Video The Victorians: Art and Culture (lecture) Richard Evans https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-victorians-art-and-culture
Video Post-Colonial Criticism (lecture) Paul Fry https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300/lecture-22
Video The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Bringing a scene to Life Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Other First World War timeline (interactive) https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/timeline
Pictures Southerne Oroonoko 1776 Performance https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
eBooks The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/burton/richard/b97b/
eBooks The Arabian Nights' Entertainments https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/burton/richard/b97a/