Romantic timelines

Professor Andrew Bennett discusses the idea of authorship. 

How did Romantic writers represent ‘the self’? 

Bill Greenwell adapts one of Wordsworth’s poems ‘To daffodils’ in the voice of Thomas De Quincy. 

Authors discuss the literature they were exposed to as children. 

<p>How women’s writing in England changed from the early fifteenth century, the time of Margery Kempe, to the late sixteenth century, the time of Anne Lock.</p> 

What tenses do we use to tell stories in English? 

Learn how to use the past tenses to tell stories. 

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In this episode, we discuss the literary changes that took place in the 7th and 6th centuries BC (moving away from grand epic to the more personalized lyric, elegiac, and iambic forms of poetry); and part 1 of 2 on the influential poets whose wri ... Show More

During the Romantic era, poetry evolved as a cultural and ideological tradition. This short, dynamic lecture highlights the cultural and revolutionary texture of such verse. 

Prof. Simon Horobin examines how the English language has changed over time, addressing such vexed questions as whether Jane Austen could spell, the fate of the apostrophe and whether people who 'literally' explode with anger are corrupting the language. 

Conversations about the power of the spoken and written word