Warwick Gould
Director of the Institute of English Studies in the School of Advanced Study, University of London
2 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Roy Foster
Covers topics in categories such as:
CultureSonneteersNobel laureates in LiteratureModernist theatreAnglican poetsIrish male poetsIrish male dramatists and playwrights, Irish expatriates in FranceFellows of the Royal Society of LiteratureIrish AnglicansVictorian writers20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersFormalist poetsAnthologistsIrish Nobel laureates, Irish modernist poets19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, Symbolist dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poetsMembers of the 1925 Seanad, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Irish occultists, Protestant Irish nationalists, Irish occult writers, Irish folklorists, Irish Dominion League, W. B. Yeats, Burials in the Republic of Ireland, People from West Kensington, William Blake scholars, People educated at The High School, Dublin, Symbolist poets, Independent members of Seanad Éireann, Members of the 1922 Seanad, Butler Yeats family, Alumni of the National College of Art and Design, Abbey Theatre, People from Sandymount, Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood
Yeats and Irish Politics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poet W.B. Yeats and Irish politics from the suspension of home rule to the division of Ireland.
17 April 2008
Also featuring: Roy Foster, Fran Brearton
CultureSonneteersNobel laureates in LiteratureModernist theatreAnglican poetsIrish male poetsFellows of the Royal Society of LiteratureIrish AnglicansVictorian writersFormalist poetsAnthologistsIrish male dramatists and playwrights, Irish expatriates in France20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersIrish Nobel laureates, Irish modernist poets19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, Symbolist dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poetsMembers of the 1925 Seanad, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Irish occultists, Protestant Irish nationalists, Irish occult writers, Irish folklorists, Irish Dominion League, W. B. Yeats, Burials in the Republic of Ireland, People from West Kensington, William Blake scholars, People educated at The High School, Dublin, Symbolist poets, Independent members of Seanad Éireann, Members of the 1922 Seanad, Butler Yeats family, Alumni of the National College of Art and Design, Abbey Theatre, People from Sandymount, Members of the Irish Republican BrotherhoodYeats and Mysticism
Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and beliefs of the Irish Poet W B Yeats and explores how a passion for magic and mysticism served and stood alongside his poetry.
31 January 2002
Also featuring: Roy Foster, Brenda Maddox
CultureSonneteersNobel laureates in LiteratureModernist theatreAnglican poetsIrish male poetsFellows of the Royal Society of LiteratureIrish AnglicansVictorian writersFormalist poetsAnthologistsIrish male dramatists and playwrights, Irish expatriates in France20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersIrish Nobel laureates, Irish modernist poets19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, Symbolist dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poetsMembers of the 1925 Seanad, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Irish occultists, Protestant Irish nationalists, Irish occult writers, Irish folklorists, Irish Dominion League, W. B. Yeats, Burials in the Republic of Ireland, People from West Kensington, William Blake scholars, People educated at The High School, Dublin, Symbolist poets, Independent members of Seanad Éireann, Members of the 1922 Seanad, Butler Yeats family, Alumni of the National College of Art and Design, Abbey Theatre, People from Sandymount, Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood