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CR Episode 110: The Poetry of Langston Hughes
In the first podcast of 2022, the panel reads five poems spanning the entire poetic arc of Langston Hughes, from the famous lines of "I, Too" to the …
4 years, 3 months ago
CR Episode 109: H.M.S. Pinafore
In a special, Christmas episode, the panel reads selections from W. S. Gilbert's libretto to H.M.S. Pinafore, and discusses how they are representati…
4 years, 4 months ago
CR Episode 108: William Carlos Williams and Minimalism
The panel reads "The Red Wheelbarrow", "This Is Just to Say", and "Gulls" by William Carlos Williams and discusses both their connexion to the Imagis…
4 years, 4 months ago
CR Episode 107: The Poetic Satire of Jonathan Swift
The panel reads three of Jonathan Swift's poems which satirise responses to the inescapable facts of human biology, and focuses on their depictions o…
4 years, 4 months ago
CR Episode 106: Scott’s The Lady of the Lake
The panel reads extended selections from each canto of Sir Walter Scott's narrative poem, "The Lady of the Lake", highlighting Scott's interest in re…
4 years, 4 months ago
CR Episode 105: The Poetic Arc of Ted Hughes
The panel reads a selection of poems by Ted Hughes compassing the scope of his poetic oeuvre, from the early and animalistic imagery of "The Jaguar" …
4 years, 4 months ago
CR Episode 104: Form and Detail in the Poetry of Richard Wilbur
The panel reads four poems by Richard Wilbur, "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World", "A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra", "Mind", an…
4 years, 5 months ago
CR Episode 103: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Songs of Travel
The panel traces themes of wanderlust, resignation, wistfulness, lonliness, and fatalism in six poems excerpted from Stevenson's Songs of Travel, inc…
4 years, 5 months ago
CR Episode 102: Thomas Wyatt in the Tudor Court
The panel reads four poems by the Tudor poet and courtier Thomas Wyatt, whose misfortunes in the Henrician court (not least of all two imprisonments)…
4 years, 5 months ago
CR Episode 101: Sylvia Plath
The panel reads three poems by Sylvia Plath, "Tulips", "Lady Lazarus", and "Daddy", tracing in them themes of self-annihilation, and analysing refere…
4 years, 5 months ago