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CR Episode 140: Ezra Pound’s Canto LXXIV
The panel attempts to read Canto LXXIV from The Cantos of Ezra Pound, but finds even this one poem too dense to complete in a single episode, with it…
3 years, 8 months ago
CR Episode 139: Idylls of the King, Part XII
The panel concludes the series on Idylls of the King with a full reading of "The Passing of Arthur" and the epilogue "To the Queen", considering Gawa…
3 years, 8 months ago
CR Episode 138: Idylls of the King, Part XI
The panel reads the penultimate idyll, "Guinevere", last of the original 1859 collection, and focuses on the redemptive arc of the queen, passing fro…
3 years, 8 months ago
CR Episode 137: Idylls of the King, Part X
The panel reads the second part of the story of Sir Pelleas, "The Last Tournament", with its contrast between white innocence and red blood, its mani…
3 years, 8 months ago
CR Episode 136: Idylls of the King, Part IX
The panel reads "Pelleas and Ettare" and questions whether Arthur overprotects Sir Pelleas, considering the implications for the court, whilst also e…
3 years, 9 months ago
CR Episode 135: Idylls of the King, Part VIII
The panel discusses the dispersal of the Round Table in "The Holy Grail", the conflict between the Common Good of the realm and the individual knight…
3 years, 9 months ago
CR Episode 134: Idylls of the King, Part VII
Moving into the second half of the Idylls, the panel reads "Lancelot and Elaine", one of the most beloved poems in the cycle, contrasting Guinevere w…
3 years, 9 months ago
CR Episode 133: Idylls of the King, Part VI
The panel reads the poem that serves as the hinge in the cycle of the Idylls, "Merlin and Vivien", looking at how Vivien uses manipulation, dissembla…
3 years, 9 months ago
CR Episode 132: Idylls of the King, Part V
The panel reads the last-composed of the Idylls, "Balin and Balan", with attention to the tale's depiction of the conflict between the Old Order and …
3 years, 10 months ago
CR Episode 131: Idylls of the King, Part IV
The panel reads "Enid and Geraint", the second part of the Enid tale and the fourth of the Idylls, with attention to the opposite perils of decadence…
3 years, 10 months ago