A personal journey around the landscapes of British poetry
Programme Details
Sunday 6 March 4.30-5.00pm
Programme 3: Landscapes of the Mind
About the programme
Not science fiction landscapes or private ones but poems which establish a manifestly invested world in order to advance recognisable truths about human nature. Imaginary landscapes as compelling - and revealing - as the hard facts of mountains, river towns etc. Children's poetry at the heart of the imagined landscape and the ghost of Freud hovers over all these made up places.
Contributors: Marina Warner, Jonathan Rée
Readers: Tom Courtenay, Kenneth Cranham, Iain Glen, Richard Holmes, Juliet Stevenson.
Poems
Extract from 'Goblin Market' - Christina Rossetti. Read by Juliet Stevenson
Taken from 'Rossetti' Published by Everyman
'I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, not Day.' - Gerard Manley Hopkins. Read by Iain Glen
Taken from 'Hopkins. Poems and Prose' Published by Everyman
'A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky' - Lewis Carroll. Read by Tom Courtenay
Taken from 'The Everyman Book of Victorian Verse'
'Kubla Khan' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Read by Richard Holmes
Taken from 'Coleridge. Poetical Works' Published by Oxford University Press.
'The Way through the Woods' - Rudyard Kipling. Read by Kenneth Cranham.
Taken from 'Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Definitive Edition' published by Hodder and Stoughton.
Your comments
Here are some of the poems which evoke landscapes of the mind to our listeners.
Kay, Birmingham I would have chosen 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. It's a vividly realised gothic tract plus a haunting map of psychological states, from alienation to healing.
Kay, Birmingham
I would have chosen 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. It's a vividly realised gothic tract plus a haunting map of psychological states, from alienation to healing.