Working with Manuscripts: ‘Michael’
In this video Professor Sally Bushell looks at some of the manuscripts for ‘Michael’ held at The Jerwood Centre. She talks about the context for the poem, looking closely at the draft materials but also narrating the complex dynamic between Wordsworth and Coleridge that informs the writing of the poem.
As you watch the film, pay particular attention to the discussion of the third manuscript (DC MS 30) in which Wordsworth writes his new poem, ‘Michael’, around Coleridge’s published Poems (1796). You are going to be asked to try and analyse a page from this later!
William Wordsworth: Poetry, People and Place
William Wordsworth: Poetry, People and Place
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