Valerie Rumbold
Reader in English Literature at Birmingham University
1 episode
Covers topics in categories such as:
English male poetsEnglish essayistsEnglish male non-fiction writersBritish male essayistsPeople from the City of London18th-century English male writersNeoclassical writersEnglish Roman CatholicsEnglish Catholic poets18th-century British essayistsRoman Catholic writersTranslators of HomerFreemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England18th-century English non-fiction writersTuberculosis deaths in EnglandTory poets18th-century English poets
Pope
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the satirist Alexander Pope. One of the greatest poets of the English language, his brilliant satires have made him popular in our age but not in his own.
9 November 2006
Also featuring: John Mullan, Jim McLaverty
Neoclassical writersEnglish Roman CatholicsTory poetsEnglish essayists18th-century English poetsPeople from the City of London18th-century British essayistsEnglish male poetsEnglish male non-fiction writersRoman Catholic writersTranslators of HomerEnglish Catholic poetsFreemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England18th-century English non-fiction writersTuberculosis deaths in England18th-century English male writersBritish male essayists