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William Wordsworth and the English Lakes

The poetry of Wordsworth is filled with the landscapes of the English Lake Country, where he was born and lived almost all his life. Wordsworth was not simply a reporter or observer of this landscape, nor does this program simply illustrate his work. Rather, it walks in his footsteps, along the paths, across the fields, through daffodil-filled meadows, beneath the azure skies and lonely clouds. Perhaps the most startling benefit of this program is its lesson about Wordsworth’s poetic language. Seeing the sights he saw and hearing the words with which he described them call particular attention to the simplicity of Wordsworth’s language applied to landscape that is workaday for others—yet the poet’s effect is music and magic. (15 minutes)



 
    

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A Prologue to Chaucer
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A scholarly program that reaches out to students of The Canterbury Tales to relate its characters and themes to everyday life in late-14th-century England. Period art of exceptional richness is combined with location photography that retraces the Apr...(more details)
 
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

This program draws a parallel between Coleridge's best-known poem and the poet's own life, haunted by his addiction to opium. It shows his desperate attempt to free himself from his demon; tells us about Coleridge's time and friends-especially his re...(more details)
 
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William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience

"The Chimney Sweeper" poems-one from Songs of Innocence and the other from Songs of Experience-are the principal focus of this program, which compares the two poems, exploring their social context and style and returning again and again to the langua...(more details)
 
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William Wordsworth: William and Dorothy

A sensitive and insightful program about the poetry of William Wordsworth and the landscape and personality that lay behind and within it. With David Warner playing Wordsworth, this dramatization by Ken Russell presents some of the major poems agains...(more details)
 
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Byron: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know

The title is drawn from Caroline Lamb's description of the poet, who seems to stand just out of camera range as the program focuses on publisher John Murray, descended from the John Murray who first published Byron's works. His offices are filled wit...(more details)
 
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