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The Nightingale and the Lucy Poems
Episode 2 of 3
The Nightingale, Coleridge's 'conversation poem', and Wordsworth's series of elegiac poems about the narrator's love for the enigmatic Lucy.
A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 collaboration which marked the beginning of the English Romantic poetry movement.
The Nightingale, Coleridge's 'conversation poem' in which he disputes the traditional association of the nightingale with melancholy. And Wordsworth's series of elegiac poems about the narrator's love for the enigmatic Lucy. Recorded on location in the Quantock Hills, Somerset and in the Wye Valley, Monmouthshire.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...... Julius D'Silva
William Wordsworth ...... Mark Meadows
Adapted by Emma Harding.
Last on
Sun 3 Jul 201100:30
BBC Radio 4
Broadcasts
- Wed 14 Oct 200915:30BBC Radio 4
- Sun 3 Jul 201100:30BBC Radio 4
