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The Nightingale and the Lucy Poems

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.

18 minutes

Broadcasts

  • Wed 14 Oct 2009 15:30
  • Sun 3 Jul 2011 00:30