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This programme asks why the 600 year old poetic form of the sonnet is still so popular among contemporary poets.
This programme asks why the 600 year old poetic form of the sonnet is still so popular among contemporary poets.
| Module code and title: | A103, An introduction to the humanities |
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| Item code: | A103; 02 |
| First transmission date: | 1998 |
| Published: | 1998 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:24:02 |
| Note: | . Loan copy available on compilation video A103/1,2,3,4;Open University course. Programme also used for AZX103/05 |
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| Producer: | Amanda Willett |
| Contributors: | Wendy Cope; Douglas Dunn; Tony Harrison; Stephen Regan |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Leeds; Milton; Wordsworth |
| Footage description: | Footage - Reading of Wordsworth sonnet, Scorn not the Sonnet. Engraving of Shakespeare, Petrach, Tasso, Dante Alighieri, Edmund Spenser, John Milton & Wordsworth. Photos of Douglas Dunn, Wendy Cope & Tony Harrison (0'32"-2'18") - Black & white film of Leeds 1963. Photos of Wilson, Kepple & Betty, Side Field & Jerry Desmando, Tommy Trinder, Max Wall, Arthur Askey & Max Miller (3'59"-4'57") - Black & white film of classroom 1955. Tony Harrison reading Them & Uz (5'09"-8'02") - Penshurst, Kent. Painting of Sir Philip Sidney. Reading of Sir Philip Sidney sonnet, My true love hath my heart, and I have his(8'03"-9'37") - Reading of Wendy Cope sonnet, Stugnell's Bargain. Analysis of sonnet (10'43"-12'06") - Reading of William Shakespeare sonnet, When in disgrace with fortune. Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Nude by Vanessa Bell (12'55"-14'22") - Reading of Wendy Cope sonnet, The Sitter. Photo of Rossetti. Proserpine. Engraving of Charles Tennison Turner (15'26"-16'45").Reading of Charles Tennyson Turner sonnet, Letty's Globe (16'50"-17'48") - Analysis of Letty's Globe (18'37"-20'03") - Reading of Douglas Dunn sonnet, Sandra's Mobile. Black & white film of graveyard 1964. classroom 1955 (20'28"-21'44") - Black & white film of bakery. Tony Harrison reading Marked with D. Analysis of Marked with D (22'46"-25'51") - Tony Harrison reading Book Ends (27'19"-28'38")- x-31-221757-8. |
| Master spool number: | DOU8949 |
| Production number: | FOUA487B |
| Videofinder number: | 5362 |
| Available to public: | no |
