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CR Episode 160: The Poetry of Lewis Carroll
The panel reads four poems by Lewis Carroll and discusses the importance of poetic form in nonsense poetry, along with several potentially complicate…
3 years, 2 months ago
CR Episode 159: The Sangraal of Robert Stephen Hawker
The panel reads "The Quest of the Sangraal" by the nineteenth-century parson and poet, Robert Stephen Hawker, with special attention to the use of di…
3 years, 3 months ago
CR Episode 158: Introduction to Thomas Traherne
The panel reads three poems by Thomas Traherne, a late seventeenth-century English poet of imaginative, reflective, and speculative verse, whose manu…
3 years, 3 months ago
CR Episode 157: Washington Irving’s Christmas
The panel reads Washington Irving's Christmas sequence from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., and examines how its portrayal of an old-fashi…
3 years, 3 months ago
CR Episode 156: The Lay of the Children of Hurin, Part III
The panel concludes a three-week reading of The Lay of the Children of Hurin, examining the connexion between the history, geography, and cosmology o…
3 years, 3 months ago
CR Episode 155: The Lay of the Children of Hurin, Part II
The panel reads the second part of The Lay of the Children of Hurin, which relates the tale of Beleg Strongbow, and the doom of Turin Turambar, givin…
3 years, 4 months ago
CR Episode 154: The Lay of the Children of Hurin, Part I
The panel begins a three-week reading and analysis of the first version of J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lay of the Children of Hurin", a poetic account of…
3 years, 4 months ago
CR Episode 153: Poetry of Delmore Schwartz
The panel examines three poems by Delmore Schwartz, with a particular focus on his language and themes, including a poetic biography of Lincoln, a me…
3 years, 4 months ago
CR Episode 152: Young Goodman Brown
In Critical Reading's first episode dedicated to a work of prose, the panel reads Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, Young Goodman Brown, and examine…
3 years, 5 months ago
CR Episode 151: Whitman and the Civil War, Part II
The panel concludes its series on American Civil War poetry with Whitman's Drum Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps, focusing in particular upon the structu…
3 years, 5 months ago