Wordsworth and De Quincy

Professor Andrew Bennett discusses the idea of authorship. 

How did Romantic writers represent ‘the self’? 

Dr Anne Casey, a poet and writer teaches us the joy of poetry. 

Situated on the cusp of the Romantic era, Thomas Gray’s work is a mixture of impersonal Augustan abstraction and intense subjectivity. ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ is one of the most famous poems in the English language, and continues to exert its influence on contempo ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poet George Herbert (1593-1633) who, according to the French philosopher Simone Weil, wrote ‘the most beautiful poem in the world’. Herbert gave his poems on his relationship with God to a friend, to be published after his death if they offered ...  Show more

Robert Frost, born March 26, 1874, San Francisco, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/California-state" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blan ...  Show more