Literature - Poetry for Pleasure
This course will be delivered online.
If you love poetry and enjoy exploring a wide variety of poems with fellow poetry-lovers then this is the course for you.
Literature - Words and Your Wellbeing
This course will be delivered online.
Reading has therapeutic benefits and this course is designed to look at how reading can improve wellbeing. (The course won?t offer therapy but can have therapeutic effects). We will explore how reading can help to us to relax, calm down, combat stress, boost mood and navigate through life issues. Relaxation is key to coping at difficult times. One of the biggest barriers to relaxation is finding time for it, as many people are time-poor with a frenetic pace of life. You will learn how to use reading as a quick and easy way to slow down and...
Reading for Wellbeing
This course will be delivered online.
Reading has therapeutic benefits and this course is designed to look at how reading can improve wellbeing. (The course won't offer therapy but can have therapeutic effects). We will explore how reading can help to us to relax, calm down, combat stress, boost mood and navigate through life issues. Relaxation is key to coping at difficult times. One of the biggest barriers to relaxation is finding time for it, as many people are time-poor with a frenetic pace of life. You will learn how to use reading as a quick and easy way to slow down and...
Romantic Poets and their World
What is so fascinating about the gothic and the romantic ? The Romantics and Gothic Literature have shaped much of modern literature, arts and culture.
This course will explore the natural wonder of the Romantics and the dark desires of Gothic
writers. We will look at the basic ingredients of romantic and gothic literature as well as
considering how these texts have shaped contemporary culture and the arts.
Join us at the School of Ideas in Surbiton to explore the literary explosion of this vivid
period in history, which developed as a reaction to the...
