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CR Episode 210: Warton’s The Pleasures of Melancholy
Published 2 years, 2 months ago
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The panel introduces one of the Graveyard Poets, Thomas Warton the Younger, and reads in full his most famous poem, "The Pleasures of Melancholy", with attention to how it prefigures the Romantics even as it remains part of the Augustan worldview.