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Tower Poetry

Tower Poetry 2012: Postcards

Lucy Hely-Hutchinson reads her entry for the 2012 Tower Poetry Competition.
Tower Poetry

Tower Poetry 2012: Balloon Song

Bethan Smith reads her entry for the 2012 Tower Poetry Competition.
Great Writers Inspire

Katherine Mansfield and Rhythm Magazine

Dr Faith Binckes explains why modernist short story writer and critic Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is a great writer, highlighting her involvement with the 1911-1913 periodical Rhythm, edited by her second husband John Middleton Murry.
Great Writers Inspire

William Blake

Dr David Fallon introduces the poetry, painting, and engraving of William Blake, focusing on the imaginative and visionary aspects of Blake's work and his desire to break the publics 'mind-forg'd manacles'.
Great Writers Inspire

18th Century Labouring Class Poetry

Dr Jennifer Batt gives a talk on Stephen Duck, one of the 18th Century labouring-class poets.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Cristian Aliaga: Your Virtues Are Your Faults. Poetry Reading (Spanish and English)

A reading by Cristian Aliaga, one of Argentina's outstanding contemporary poets, given at St. John's College, Oxford, on 3 November, 2011. English translations are read by Ben Bollig, Lecturer in Spanish American Literature.
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

The Joys of Cricket

This podcast looks at cricket seen through eighteenth-century eyes, focussing on a poem by James Dance, called 'Cricket: An Heroic Poem.'.
Literature, Art and Oxford

Walcott and Naipaul: History and Myth

Catherine Brown, Lecturer in English Literature, compares West Indian writers Derek Walcott and Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul on their attitudes towards history and myth.
Tower Poetry

Tower Poetry 2011 Wires

Elizabeth Johnson, winner of the 2011 Tower Poetry Competition, reads her poem Wires.
Tower Poetry

Tower Poetry 2011 Simple

Abigail Richards reads her entry for the 2011 Tower Poetry competition. Simple.
Tower Poetry

Tower Poetry 2011 The Breaking Day

Molly Underwood reads her entry for the 2011 Tower Poetry competition, The Breaking Day.
The King James Bible Lecture Series

This book of starres': biblical constellations in the poetry of Herbert and Vaughan

Prof Helen Wilcox (Bangor University) gives the third lecture in the Manifold Greatness" Oxford Celebrations of the King James Bible 1611-2011 lecture series held at Corpus Christi College.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In the months immediately following Shelley's death Mary lived at Albaro on the outskirts of Genoa. Her only regular companions were her young son, Percy Florence, and the journal she began on 2 October 1822.
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family

Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In the months immediately following Shelley's death Mary lived at Albaro on the outskirts of Genoa. Her only regular companions were her young son, Percy Florence, and the journal she began on 2 October 1822.
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family

William Godwin- Letter to Mary Shelley

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This is the letter Godwin wrote to Mary after hearing of Shelley's death.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

William Godwin- Letter to Mary Shelley

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This is the letter Godwin wrote to Mary after hearing of Shelley's death.
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Everybody is in despair and every thing in confusion' writes Shelley in his last letter to Mary. He was in Pisa to discuss a new journal, The Liberal, with Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Everybody is in despair and every thing in confusion' writes Shelley in his last letter to Mary. He was in Pisa to discuss a new journal, The Liberal, with Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron.
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This great elegy was prompted by the news of the death of John Keats in Rome, and by Shelley's belief that Keats's illness was caused by the hostile notices his work had been given in the Quarterly Review.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This great elegy was prompted by the news of the death of John Keats in Rome, and by Shelley's belief that Keats's illness was caused by the hostile notices his work had been given in the Quarterly Review.

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