The Lives of Stonehenge: Wordsworth and Blake

20/06/2023 45 min
The Lives of Stonehenge: Wordsworth and Blake

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Episode Synopsis

For the third episode in her short series on Stonehenge, Rosemary Hill is joined by Seamus Perry to experience the stone circle through the mind and eyes of a Romantic, with the likes of Wordsworth, Blake, Turner and Constable. For these poets and artists, Salisbury Plain took on a gloomy and richly psychological presence, lit with intense personal and political drama, and animated with revolutionary thought.
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