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CR Episode 170: Seamus Heaney’s Passion for the Past
The panel reads and discusses the connexions between three poems by Seamus Heaney: "Blackberry Picking", "Three-Piece", and "Mycenae Nightwatch", wit…
3 years ago
CR Episode 169: The Poetry of Edgar Guest
The panel reviews the work of "The People's Poet", Edgar A. Guest, national best-seller, sole Poet Laureate of Michigan, host of the A Guest in Your …
3 years ago
CR Episode 168: The Poetry of Rupert Brooke
The panel reads three poems by Rupert Brooke, a poet of the Georgian movement of the early twentieth century, whose poetry of the early Great War per…
3 years, 1 month ago
CR Episode 167: The Poetry of Wilfred Owen
The panel reads three poems by Wilfred Owen, perhaps the greatest poet of the Great War, including his "Dulce et Decorum Est", "Anthem for Doomed You…
3 years, 1 month ago
CR Episode 166: H. P. Lovecraft’s Polaris
The panel, joined by special guest Lane Haygood, reads H. P. Lovecraft's Polaris, and discusses its rich symbolism, use of metaphor, deliberately arc…
3 years, 1 month ago
CR Episode 165: Pope’s Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
The panel reads Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" and discusses its moral and ethical instruction alongside its waspish skewering of eighte…
3 years, 1 month ago
CR Episode 164: Tennyson’s Locksley Hall
The panel reads Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Locksley Hall" and discusses its connexion to the real Loxley Hall in Staffordshire, as well as the poem's f…
3 years, 2 months ago
CR Episode 163: Love and Death with Edna St. Vincent Millay
The panel closely reads four poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, focusing primarily on her sonnets, and evaluates their formal structure and potential …
3 years, 2 months ago
CR Episode 162: Thomas Babington Macaulay’s Horatius
The panel reads the entirety of Thomas Babington Macaulay's "Horatius" from his collection Lays of Ancient Rome, and discusses the Horatian nature of…
3 years, 2 months ago
CR Episode 161: James Joyce’s Chamber Music
The panel reviews selections from James Joyce's inaugural work, the poetry collection titled Chamber Music, the first-published of his substantial wo…
3 years, 2 months ago