and in this series I'm talking poetry. In this episode we're comparing 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen and an extract from 'The Prelude' by William Wordsworth. We're looking at language, form ...

Robert Burns was not the only idealistic British poet to be initially entranced by the French Revolution. His younger contemporary William Wordsworth ... of Book XI of The Prelude.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Wordsworth was not unusual among Romantic poets for his enthusiastic support of the French Revolution, but he stands ...

and in this series I'm talking poetry. In this episode we're comparing 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen and an extract from 'The Prelude' by William Wordsworth. We're looking at language, form ...

starting with Wordsworth’s “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,/ But to be young was very Heaven.” Here is the background to the ecstatic claim from the biographical poem, The Prelude.