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CR Episode 120: The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence
The panel reads four poems by D. H. Lawrence: "Whales Weep Not!", "Moonrise", "When I Read Shakespeare", and "Only Man", and discusses their frank bu…
4 years, 1 month ago
CR Episode 119: Pope and Wordsworth in Conversation
The panel reads two Pope's 'An Essay on Man' and Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey' in conversation with one another--looking at the similarities of their…
4 years, 1 month ago
CR Episode 118: Introduction to Conrad Aiken
The panel reads a selection of three poems by Conrad Aiken--"The Room", "Exile", and "Goya"--and discusses their dreamlike imagery, and the impact of…
4 years, 2 months ago
CR Episode 117: Milton’s Lycidas
Following on the theme of love and death, the panel reads Milton's pastoral elegy, "Lycidas", dedicated to the memory of Edward King, with special at…
4 years, 2 months ago
CR Episode 116: Venus and Adonis
For St. Valentine's Day, the panel reads what is likely to have been Shakespeare's first officially published work: his genre-defying Tragi-Comi-Ovid…
4 years, 2 months ago
CR Episode 115: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part IV
The panel concludes "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" with an examination of the poem's liminal spaces, an evaluation of Gawain's moral virtue, a dis…
4 years, 2 months ago
CR Episode 114: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part III
The panel reads the third part of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", with particular attention to the juxtaposition of the forest hunting, killing, a…
4 years, 2 months ago
CR Episode 113: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part II
The panel reads the second part of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", and examines the theological significance of the seasons, the detailed military…
4 years, 3 months ago
CR Episode 112: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part I
The panel reads the first part of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, providing an overview of the formal aspects of the poem, the history of the manusc…
4 years, 3 months ago
CR Episode 111: Light Verse of Ogden Nash
The panels searches for a smile / And dwells with Ogden Nash a while. / Some lines are light and some are scary / But the formal aspects rather vary.…
4 years, 3 months ago