The Prelude
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest long poems in the English language - The Prelude. Begun in Northern Germany during the terrible winter of 1798 by a young and dreadfully homesick William Wordsworth, The Prelude was to be his masterpiece - an epic retelling of his own life and the foundation stone of English Romanticism. In language of aching beauty wordsworth expressed thoughts about memory, identity, nature and experience familiar to anybody who has walked alone among the hills. With Rosemary Ashton, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London; Stephen Gill, University Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford; Emma Mason, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick.
Guests
- Rosemary Ashton
10 episodes
Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London -
Stephen Gill No other episodes
University Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford -
Emma Mason No other episodes
Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick
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