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This programme analyses Wordsworth's descriptive language.
This programme analyses Wordsworth's descriptive language.
| Module code and title: | A202, The age of revolutions |
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| Item code: | A202; 07 |
| First transmission date: | 26-04-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:48 |
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| Producer: | Nuala O'Faolain |
| Contributor: | Cicely Palser Havely |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Lake District; Literature; Poetry; Wordsworth |
| Footage description: | Cicely Havely introduces the programme. It will deal with Wordsworth's language in particular his descriptive language. Excerpt from Wordsworth's 'An evening walk'. The verses are shown on screen. Cicely Havely analyses the poem. She introduces film of the Lake District, the Wordsworth country. Lake District film. Shown are:- Kirkston Pass, Hawkshead, Ullswater, Windermere. Cicely Havely describes conventional attitudes to landscape and the Lake District in other 18th Century writers. Wordsworth's attitude is contrasted. Quotations from prose works are given. Lake District film continued. Shots of Windermere, Grasmere. Wordsworth's attitude to landscape is further analysed. Quotations from prose words are given. Cicely Havely analyses The Simplon Pass passage from ' Prelude VI' the words are shown on screen. Cicely Havely's analysis is quite lengthly. Second stanza of the 'Immortality ode'. The words appear on the screen. Cicely Havely analyses the ode in detail and quotes from other stanzas. The last stanza of the 'Immortality ode' is shown on the screen and analysed by Cicely Havely. Shot of Wordsworth's grave in Grasmere Churchyard. |
| Master spool number: | 6LT/70368 |
| Production number: | 00521_2314 |
| Videofinder number: | 2517 |
| Available to public: | no |
