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Jane Wright

Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol

2 episodes

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Culture English male poets Sonneteers 19th-century English poets Victorian poets English Catholic poets British poems Poet priests Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism 1849 poems

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works of Hopkins, unpublished in his lifetime, who FR Leavis called 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age and the greatest'.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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Also featuring: Catherine Phillips, Martin Dubois

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Culture English male poets Sonneteers 19th-century English poets Victorian poets English Catholic poets Poet priests Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism
Tennyson's In Memoriam

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam.

30 June 2011

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Also featuring: Dinah Birch, Seamus Perry

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Culture British poems 1849 poems