Mycroft Lectures
A Mycroft Lecture will enable you to understand a poem without reading a book on it. Study a Mycroft lecture if you:
- need to understand a poem for an examination;
- need do a presentation on a poem;
- are interested in poetry in general.
We have been careful to ensure these lectures are easy to understand, while containing very little “fat.” Each lecture provides a lot of information. After watching, students at school or college level will be able to understand these poems, while students at university level will find new points for consideration and analysis.
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Lecture 1 – Seamus Heaney’s Mid-Term Break
Download: Mycroft Notes – 1 Seamus Heaney – Mid-Term Break
Lecture 2 – Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess
Download: Mycroft Notes – 2 Robert Browning – My Last Duchess
Lecture 3 – Seamus Heaney’s Digging
Download: Mycroft Notes – 3 Seamus Heaney – Digging
Lecture 4 – Dylan Thomas’s Do No Go Gentle into that Good Night
Download: Mycroft Notes – 4 Dylan Thomas – Do Not Go
Lecture 5 – William Butler Yeats’s No Second Troy
Download: Mycroft Notes – 5 William Butler Yeats – No Second Troy
Lecture 6 – Wilfred Owen’s Dulce Et Decorum Est
Download: Mycroft Notes – 6 Wilfred Owen – Dulce Et Decorum Est
Lecture 7 – William Wordsworth’s Upon Westminster Bridge
Download: Mycroft Notes – 7 William Wordsworth – Upon Westminster Bridge
Lecture 8 – Chinua Achebe’s Refugee Mother and Child
Download: Mycroft Notes – 8 Chinua Achebe – Refugee Mother and Child
Lecture 9 – Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress
Download: Mycroft Notes – 9 Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress
Lecture 10 – John Donne’s The Good-Morrow
Download: Mycroft Notes – 10 John Donne – The Good-Morrow
Lecture 11 – Philip Larkin’s Toads
Download: Mycroft Notes – 11 Philip Larkin – Toads
Lecture 12 – Philip Larkin’s Toads Revisited
Download: Mycroft Notes – 12 Philip Larkin – Toads Revisited
Lecture 13 – Rupert Brooke’s The Soldier