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William Wordsworth: A Concise Biography
Item# 43993
© 2007
36 Min.
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Opening by introducing William Wordsworth's boyhood home in the Lake District of England, this film from the Famous Authors series offers an overview of the writer's work and biography. The Lake Distr...
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Jonathan Swift: A Concise Biography
Item# 43987
© 2005
37 Min.
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This introduction to the life and work of Jonathan Swift from the Famous Authors series explores the political messages and social critiques in Swift's work, including the famous Gulliver's Travels an...
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She Stoops to Conquer
Item# 33355
© 2003
136 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-0-7365-9374-8
An ambitious stepmother, a pragmatic father, impassioned sweethearts, and starry-eyed suitors are all sent spinning in Oliver Goldsmith’s classic comedy of manners—and errors. Directed by Max Stafford...
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Jonathan Swift: The Troubled Dean
Item# 10922
© 1999
39 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-6996-9
This program is a definitive treatment of the life of Jonathan Swift, the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Passages from Swift's correspondence and astute commentary by Swift biographe...
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William Blake
Item# 6278
© 1995
52 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-0-7365-5502-9
Ignored during his lifetime, the artist and poet William Blake is now a literary institution. How did this reversal come about? How did a republican, dissident printer, who was considered insane by hi...
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Writing The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Item# 4082
© 1993
20 Min.
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This program focuses on the writing of Coleridge's poem, dramatizing the writing process in order to illustrate what might have influenced and informed the poem. Contemporary comment is elicited from...
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William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience
Item# 3244
© 1991
20 Min.
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"The Chimney Sweeper" poems-one from Songs of Innocence and the other from Songs of Experience-are the principal focus of this program, which compares the two poems, exploring their social context and...
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Hume
Item# 7285
© 1987
44 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-8714-7
The leading philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume, is the subject of this program. In it, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and expert John Passmore of the National Austr...
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Robert Burns: Love and Liberty
Item# 932
© 1986
39 Min.
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Where other early Romantic poets saw dialect and country subjects as quaint, for Burns they were the materials of his life and became the heart of some of the most frequently anthologized poems in the...
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The Rivals
Item# 38691
© 1970
114 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-8281-4
Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s witty comedy of manners The Rivals is one of only a small handful of 18th-century plays that continues to be produced—and studied—to this day. This classic BBC fi...
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