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CR Episode 150: Whitman and the Civil War, Part I
The panel reads a selection of the poems added to the 1860-61 edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, focusing on what the poetry suggests about h…
3 years, 5 months ago
CR Episode 149: Longfellow and the Civil War, Part II
The panel reads two poems from Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863): 'Torquemada' and 'The Birds of Killingworth', examining the role of zeal, …
3 years, 5 months ago
CR Episode 148: Longfellow and the Civil War, Part I
In the first of a two-part reading of selections from Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn, the panel reads the beginning of the Prelude and then exam…
3 years, 5 months ago
CR Episode 147: Melville and the Civil War, Part II
The panel concludes a two-part survey of Melville's reading of the Civil War as viewed through his Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) by dis…
3 years, 6 months ago
CR Episode 146: Melville and the Civil War, Part I
In this first episode of a two-part examination of Melville's poetic response to the Civil War, the panel reads two poems from his first poetry colle…
3 years, 6 months ago
CR Episode 145: E.E. Cummings on Nonconformity
The panel performs a thorough close readings of two well-anthologised poems by E.E. Cummings--'i sing of Olaf glad and big' and 'the Cambridge ladies…
3 years, 6 months ago
CR Episode 144: Poetry for King Charles
In celebration of King Charles III, the panel reads two poems written to celebrate the reigns of his predecessors, King Charles I and King Charles II…
3 years, 7 months ago
CR Episode 143: Poetry In Memoriam Elizabeth II
The panel reads poetry celebrating the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, including Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes for the Silver Jubilee, Hughes fo…
3 years, 7 months ago
CR Episode 142: The Poetry of James Weldon Johnson
The panel reads three stirring poems by the American diplomat, activist, author, poet, and professor James Weldon Johnson, examining the theological …
3 years, 7 months ago
CR Episode 141: Wordsworth’s Prelude, Book I
The panel reads the first book of William Wordsworth's "The Prelude", discussing the intention of the overall work, with special attention to the pre…
3 years, 7 months ago