World War One was a conflict of empire, not of nation. In this lecture Dr Simon Featherstone looks at four distinctive poets who provide a version of empire that is much more nuanced than the imperial rhetoric of the established canon. Dr Simon Featherstone is Principal Lecturer in Drama Studies at De Montfort University with a specialism in postcolonial st ... Show More
Jan 2025
Andrew Smith, "Class and the Uses of Poetry: Symbolic Enclosures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Sociologists have had surprisingly little to say about poetry as a topic while sometimes also making grandiose claims that sociology is/should be like poetry. These are the prompts which begin Andrew Smith’s Class and the Uses of Poetry: Symbolic Enclosures (2024, Palgrave Macmil ... Show More
1h 9m
Feb 2023
Curtis Runstedler, "Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Curtis Runstedler's book Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempl ... Show More
58m 21s
<p>Today's motivation comes from poetry.</p>
<p>Audio Source: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lK4LrD8Ii4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lK4LrD8Ii4</a></p>
<p>More about Charles:</p>
<p>Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was an American writer and poet known for his gritty, ... Show More
<p>Wilfred Owen is considered one of the most important English-language poets of World War I. His work also part of a shift in how many British poets were writing about war.</p> <p><strong>Research:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bonellie, Janet. “A Portrait of Robert Ross.&r ... Show More
