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"William Wordsworth" (9 results)
Ellie Harrison and Joe Crowley are in the Lake District to celebrate the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth's birth.
Owen Sheers explores six great works of poetry set in the British landscape. This episode features Composed upon West...
An introduction to Wordsworth's life and his love for the Lake District.
Akala discusses and analyses the 'Boating' extract from Wordsworth's 'The...
A reading and introduction to William Wordsworth's poem 'Composed upon Westminst...
William Wordsworth, John Keats, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and Percy Shelley express themselves with an epic pop ballad.
Presented by rapper Akala, this programme explores the poetry of the Romantic period through the work of Wordsworth, Byron, Blake, ...
Peter Ackroyd reveals how the radical ideas of liberty that inspired the French Revolution opened up a world of possibility for British writers such as Blake a...
Owen Sheers explores the atmosphere, structure, punctuation and vocabulary used ...
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