first lecture: Let's Go British and Irish Literature

Britain.

Writing it down.

A lot of authors: Pope and Austen and Hopkins and future cops and an Oscar.

Johnny Depp as Lord Rochester.

More to see.

Poetry can be like this and like this and like this and like this and also this and like this and like this and like this, even.

Let's. No, Let's.

We may not get to read her.

We could go here.

Sam Riviere tweets.

Daljit Nagra writes and translates.

We'll meet him. And possibly hear her. And see scary hats.

You can also write about him, or her, or him.

UCL.

Hogarth's painting of a scene from The Beggar's Opera.

William Blake's title page for Songs of Innocence and Experience.

A beautiful lake in Wordworth's Lake District.

The astonishingly useful Victorian Web, and the Crystal Palace interior.

The young Auden.

Poems:

Matthew Prior, "A Simile."
William Cowper (pronounced "Cooper"), "The Castaway."
Stevie Smith, "Not Waving But Drowning."
Charlotte Mew, "Fin de Fête," and Mew, "From a Window."
Denise Riley, "Not What You Think."
Jen Hadfield, "Aa"