The final two programmes focus on classic poetry and include a selection of well-known poems often taught at Key Stage 2. These poems are read by the actors Maxine Peake and Julian Rhind-Tutt.
The Gold-Bug speaks to anyone who enjoys classic ... last complete poem that he composed. In this piece, the narrator blends darkness with romance, professing his undying love for the young ...
Five chapters visit the world of Latin love elegy, the time, place and political background ... to a vast and challenging field of literary inquiry … All students of Latin poetry and its afterlife ...
“Then word spread, and pretty soon I was writing so many of these love letters, in exchange for ‘tea money’. It was only much later that I realised they were my first attempts at poetry.