Adventures in Poetry - Series 10
Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems
Adventures in Poetry - Series 10 - Adlestrop
Written in 1915 about a two-minute stop at a railway station in the Cotswolds, this poem has long been loved for its evocation of high summer and rural England.
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Adventures in Poetry - Series 10 - An Arundel Tomb
Peggy Reynolds investigates the intriguing layers of mystery surrounding one of Philip Larkin's best-loved poems, An Arundel Tomb.
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Adventures in Poetry - Series 10 - Mending Wall
Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and appeal of some well-loved poems. Robert Frost's Mending Wall, which gave us the epigram 'good fences make good neighbours'.
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Adventures in Poetry - Series 10 - My Last Duchess
Peggy Reynolds teases out the many layers of Robert Browning's chilling but groundbreaking poem, in which an aristocrat tacitly admits to having done away with his young wife.
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Adventures in Poetry - Series 10 - On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Keats' poem records him touching the ancient world through translation and his fecund imagination. Peggy Reynolds explores the stories behind its creation and its enduring appeal.
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Adventures in Poetry - Series 10 - To My Dear and Loving Husband
The story behind one of the most tender and enduring of love poems, written by a migrant to the New World who is now revered as America's first woman poet - Anne Bradstreet.
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