Synopsis
Actor Ian McKellen presents his personal choice of poetry and prose. These include 'Words' by Edward Thomas, 'When I have Fears' by John Keats, ‘Sonnet 17’ by William Shakespeare, ‘Samuel Johnson's Letter to Lord Chesterfield’, ‘Preface to Kubla Khan’ by S.T. Coleridge, 'Thoughts About the Person From Porlock' by Stevie Smith, 'In My Craft and Sullen Art' by Dylan Thomas, 'East Coker' by T.S. Eliot, 'Prose Poem Towards A Definition of Itself' by Brian Pattern and 'The Voyeur' by Tom Leonard.
Powerful Texts | Sonnet 17
Programme aimed at GCSE English students, using a variety of poems and text extracts to deconstruct the work of authors such as Dickens, Shakespeare and Browning.
Poetry Please | 20/06/2010
Roger McGough introduces some of the 154 sonnets of Shakespeare, plus a selection from some other 17th-century masters: John Donne, Andrew Marvell and Henry Vaughan.