Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

English poetry collections

The Tower is a book of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1928. The Tower was Yeats's first major collection as Nobel Laureate after receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923.

2 episodes

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  1. Lyrical Ballads

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Lyrical Ballads, the 1798 volume of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

    8 March 2012

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    Featuring: Judith Hawley, Jonathan Bate, Peter Swaab

     
  2. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Blake's illustrated collection of poems, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.

    23 June 2016

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    Featuring: Jonathan Bate, Sarah Haggarty, Jon Mee