When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

Update: 2019-05-17

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Simon Armitage delivers his final lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry, reflecting on his own influences as a poet.

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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

2019-05-1701:06:46

'Undisfigured by False or Vicious Ornaments' - Clarity and Obscurity in the Age of Formlessness

2019-01-2801:06:05

Damned if he Does and Damned if he Doesn't? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2018-11-2357:12

Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres

2018-05-1701:05:44

Like, Elizabeth Bishop

2018-03-2001:04:38

The Hawks and the Doves – raptors and rapture in the poetry of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes.

2017-11-1501:01:01

95 Theses: On the Principles and Practice of Poetry

2017-05-1901:03:56

We Need To Talk About Robert: Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature'

2017-03-1459:06

Access All Areas: Poetry and the Underworld

2016-11-1401:02:56

On Lists

2016-05-1801:09:33

Mind the Gap: Omission, Negation and 'a final revelation of horrible Nothingness - '

2016-04-0801:00:34

The Parable of the Solicitor and the Poet

2016-04-0801:00:16

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