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Waking at 6 AM
Season 3 Episode 258
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Welcome to Celebrate Poe - my name is George Bartley, and this is episode 257 - Waking at 6 AM
This and the following podcast episodes are an alternate or what if history exercises. The…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Literary Ambitions
Season 3 Episode 257
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This and the following podcast episodes in this series are an alternate or what if history exercises. The episodes look at what might have happened if Edgar Allan Poe had chosen a diff…
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A Dream and a Career
Season 3 Episode 255
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This and the following three podcast episodes were begun as what if history exercises. These episodes look at what might have happened if Edgar Allan Poe had chosen a different path - …
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Poe and Democracy
Season 3 Episode 254
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Welcome back to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 254 - Poe’s Views on Democracy. Today I would like to talk with Mr. Poe about his views of government - and especially about what he mig…
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Defending the Sacredness of Love
Season 3 Episode 253
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This podcast episode deals with an address given by Robert G. Ingersoll - one of the individuals who spoke at Whitman’s funeral.
He was the poet of Love. He was not ashamed of that divin…
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Call Me By Your Name
Season 3 Episode 252
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The main title of this episode, Call Me By Your Name, is taken from the text of a letter written to Whitman by one of Whitman’s admirers - none other than Bram Stoker, the author of Dra…
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When Walter Met Peter
Season 3 Episode 251
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Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 251 - When Whitman Met Peter - this episode deals with an essential area of Walt Whitman’s life and creative spirit - in fact, you might even say that…
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Whitman and the Civil War
Season 3 Episode 250
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Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 250 Whitman and the Civil War.
Walt Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started. Some critics would charge that he should have…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
America's First Gay Bar
Season 3 Episode 249
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This is episode 249 - America’s First Gay Bar
While the word gay certainly wasn’t used to connote same sex attraction during Walt Whitman’s lifetime, Whitman DID patronize an establishme…
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America's Poet
Season 3 Episode 248
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Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 248 - America’s Poet - This is the first full episode of Pride Month dealing with Walt Whitman.
This episode emphasizes that Whitman continuall…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago