Great Writers Inspire
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Great Writers Inspire
PLEASE NOTE: The 'Great Writers Inspire' project has its own website which features much more extensive, diverse and updated content. Please visit https://writersinspires.org From Dickens to Shakespeare, from Chaucer to Kipling and from Austen to Blake, this significant collection contains inspir...
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What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 3
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, draws on her experience as a trustee of the Booker Prize and as a judge for many other literary prizes to offer a response...
What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 2
Judith Luna, the Senior Commissioning Editor at Oxford World's Classics, draws on her practical involvement in re-launching the Oxford World's Classic...
What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1
Dr Ankhi Mukherjee, Wadham college, Oxford, speaks to the question 'What is a Classic?' by examining the residual influence of the Eurocentric literar...
Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored
Professor Kathyrn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks around the manuscripts of Jane Austen, what we can learn from them about her family l...
The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising
Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks about some of Jane Austen's manuscripts from the novel "The Watsons" and what we can...
Great Writers Inspire- An Introduction to the Project
A short introductory video to the "Great Writers Inspire project.
What is a Great Writer? An academic panel discusses the question.
In this panel discussion from the Great Writers Inspire Engage Event workshop, Dr Seamus Perry, Dr Margaret Kean, Professor Peter McDonald and Dr Ankh...
Chaucer
Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of Chaucer and explains how he was one of the first to use everyday spoken English as a literary language...
Ezra Pound
Dr Rebecca Beasley explains why we should read Pound, someone she considers as the central figure in early 20th Century poetry movements. In this podc...
Mary Leapor
Dr Jennifer Batt talks about Mary Leapor, an 18th Century kitchen maid who wrote accomplished verses and won accolades from literary society.
John Milton
Dr Anna Beer shares a few short extracts of Milton's poem Lycidas and discusses what they show about Milton's very special qualities as a writer.
Only Collect: An Introduction to the World of the Poetic Miscellany
Dr Abigail Williams, Director of the Digital Miscellanies Index, explains how these popular collections of poetry designed to suit contemporary tastes...
J.M. Coetzee
Professor Peter McDonald gives a talk on the work of South African Nobel Laureate, J.M. Coetzee. Professor McDonald sets out the various less-than-gre...
Olive Schreiner
Professor Elleke Boehmer gives a talk on Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), the South African novelist, pioneering feminist, and anti-imperialist polemicist...
Katherine Mansfield and Rhythm Magazine
Dr Faith Binckes explains why modernist short story writer and critic Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is a great writer, highlighting her involvement...
George Eliot - A Very Large Brain
Dr Catherine Brown gives a talk on George Eliot and her influences.
William Blake
Dr David Fallon introduces the poetry, painting, and engraving of William Blake, focusing on the imaginative and visionary aspects of Blake's work and...
18th Century Labouring Class Poetry
Dr Jennifer Batt gives a talk on Stephen Duck, one of the 18th Century labouring-class poets.
Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing
Dr Abigail Williams gives a talk on Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing.
Beowulf
Dr Francis Leneghan gives a talk on Beowulf, one of the most important works in Anglo-Saxon literature. The title of this collaborative project, 'Grea...
Shakespeare and the Stage
Professor Tiffany Stern gives a talk on William Shakespeare and how his plays were performed in Elizabethan England.