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The Essay Episodes

    21/01/2019Yorkshire

    1/5 Andrew Martin's five essays that muse on the county of his birth and upbringing.

    Paul Batchelor on Ode to PsycheAn Ode to John Keats

    5/5 Paul Batchelor explores possibly the least familiar of the great Keats odes of 1819.

    Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a NightingaleAn Ode to John Keats

    4/5 John Keats's stunningly fertile year - 1819 - celebrated by five contemporary poets

    Frances Leviston on Ode to AutumnAn Ode to John Keats

    3/5 Frances Leviston celebrates perhaps Keats's Ode to Autumn.

    Sean O'Brien on Ode on MelancholyAn Ode to John Keats

    2/5 Sean O'Brien explores the depth and meaning of Keats's Ode on Melancholy,

    Alice Oswald on Keats's Ode on a Grecian UrnAn Ode to John Keats

    1/5 Alice Oswald explores Keats's great poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn.

    Harold Godwinson

    Clive Anderson discusses the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson.

    Edward the Confessor

    Stephen Baxter creates a portrait of Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor.

    Aethelred the Unready

    Simon Keynes discusses the life of the Anglo-Saxon monarch Aethelred.

    The Smith - Gold and Black

    Leslie Webster on the life of the smith and his ambivalent status in Anglo-Saxon society.

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