Shakespeare and the Stage
Professor Tiffany Stern gives a talk on William Shakespeare and how his plays were performed in Elizabethan England.
View ArticleBeowulf
Dr Francis Leneghan gives a talk on Beowulf, one of the most important works in Anglo-Saxon literature. The title of this collaborative project, 'Great Writers Inspire', naturally brings up several...
View ArticleJonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing
Dr Abigail Williams gives a talk on Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing.
View Article18th Century Labouring Class Poetry
Dr Jennifer Batt gives a talk on Stephen Duck, one of the 18th Century labouring-class poets.
View ArticleWilliam 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 his desire to break the publics 'mind-forg'd...
View ArticleGeorge Eliot - A Very Large Brain
Dr Catherine Brown gives a talk on George Eliot and her influences.
View ArticleKatherine 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 with the 1911-1913 periodical Rhythm, edited by her...
View ArticleOlive Schreiner
Professor Elleke Boehmer gives a talk on Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), the South African novelist, pioneering feminist, and anti-imperialist polemicist. For Boehmer, Schreiner is not 'great' in the...
View ArticleJ.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-great guises of the writer in Coetzee's fiction. He...
View ArticleOnly 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 were used in the 18th Century.
View ArticleJohn 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.
View ArticleMary Leapor
Dr Jennifer Batt talks about Mary Leapor, an 18th Century kitchen maid who wrote accomplished verses and won accolades from literary society.
View ArticleEzra 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 podcast, Rebecca Beasley talks about a poem that Pound...
View ArticleChaucer
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 in the 14th Century.
View ArticleWhat 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 Ankhi Mukherjee discuss what we mean when we talk about...
View ArticleGreat Writers Inspire- An Introduction to the Project
A short introductory video to the "Great Writers Inspire project.
View ArticleThe 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 learn about her from these.
View ArticleJane 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 life but also her writing style and techniques.
View ArticleWhat 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 literary canon in the age of world literature and emergent...
View ArticleWhat 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 Classics series in 2008 to give a publisher's take on the...
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