Space, choreography and royal iconography at the English court
For diplomats coming to the court of Charles I, it was more than a case of knocking at the door and being shown in. In this Late Summer Lectures pod...
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READ gives you an insight into the groundbreaking literary research from Durham University’s world-class Department of English Studies. Our podcasts feature lectures by our researchers, as well as poetry readings and author interviews. Visit our blog at https://readdurhamenglish.wordpress.com/ or find out more about the Department of English Studies at www.durham.ac.uk/english.studies/
Rousing the vox populi in James Shirley’s The Politician
In this podcast from our Late Summer Lectures series, Kathleen Foy from Durham University explains how James Shirley’s 1639 tragedy The Politician re...
Birds and Embodiment in Shelley and Keats
In this podcast from our Late Summer Lectures series, Dr Amanda Blake Davis of the University of Sheffield takes us on a flight through birds and em...
The Autobiographical Pursuit of Happiness in Eighteenth-Century Literature
In this podcast from our Late Summer Lectures series, Alex Hobday (University of Cambridge) examines how eighteenth-century culture sought to answer ...
In Conversation with Jane Smiley
In a wide-ranging interview, Pulitzer-prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley explains how literary characters take on a life of their own, reflects on th...
An Evening with T.S. Eliot
The Centre for Poetry and Poetics held an evening to celebrate the poetry and influence of T.S. Eliot. Dr Gareth Reeves and Professor Jason Harding, ...
Antler
John Clegg’s first collection, Antler, features prehistoric landscapes, folk tale and myth. John’s reading includes a history of a city in four stan...
To Hell with Paradise
Gareth Reeves’ third collection, To Hell With Paradise: New and Selected Poems, has just been published by Carcanet. In this reading from the collec...
The Challenges of Researching and Writing Poetry
Two of the Department’s published poets, Gareth Reeves and his PhD student John Clegg, explore how their writing of poetry relates to their research....
The Poetry of W.B. Yeats
A century and a half since his birth, the Irish poet W.B. Yeats is one of the best-loved in the English language, known for his lyric poems such as ...