Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Victorian poets

6 episodes

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  1. Christina Rossetti

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti.

    1 December 2011

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    Featuring: Dinah Birch, Rhian Williams, Nicholas Shrimpton

     
  2. Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works of Hopkins, unpublished in his lifetime, who FR Leavis called 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age and the greatest'.

    21 March 2019

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    Featuring: Catherine Phillips, Jane Wright, Martin Dubois

     
  3. John Clare

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Clare, the 'Northamptonshire peasant poet', whose writing was as celebrated as his life was humble.

    9 February 2017

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    Featuring: Jonathan Bate, Mina Gorji, Simon Kövesi

     
  4. Oscar Wilde

    Melvyn Bragg discusses Oscar Wilde, the Aesthetes and his literary legacy. Was Wilde a reactionary - the last of the romantics - or was he the midwife to modernism?

    6 December 2001

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    Featuring: Valentine Cunningham, Regenia Gagnier, Neil Sammells

     
  5. Thomas Hardy's Poetry

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's poems, which he prized far above the novels which made him famous and rich, and his ambition to be ranked alongside Shelley and Byron.

    13 January 2022

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    Featuring: Mark Ford, Jane Thomas, Tim Armstrong

     
  6. William Morris

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the many aspects of William Morris: his activism, poetry and prose and his ideas on arts, crafts and work in an industrial world.

    5 July 2018

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    Featuring: Ingrid Hanson, Marcus Waithe, Jane Thomas