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CR Episode 100: Shakespeare’s Sonnets
The panel reads a selection of sonnets by William Shakespeare, and considers their Symposium-like comparisons and contrasts of the different kinds an…
4 years, 6 months ago
CR Episode 99: Hero and Leander
The panel reads Christopher Marlowe's most famous poem, Hero and Leander, discussing its rich and provocative imagery, classical allusions, and level…
4 years, 6 months ago
CR Episode 98: The Defence of Guenevere
The panel reads a single, long poem--"The Defence of Guenevere"--by the Victorian artisan, translator, novelist, and poet William Morris, giving spec…
4 years, 6 months ago
CR Episode 97: Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Love and Death
The panel reads four poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, including three sonnets, and discusses the excellence of her formal expertise and poetic st…
4 years, 6 months ago
CR Episode 96: Robert Browning’s Dramatic Verse
The panel reads three poems of the greatly esteemed Victorian poet, Robert Browning, including "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's", "Andrea …
4 years, 7 months ago
CR Episode 95: Frank O’Hara and Modernism
The panel reads three poems by mid-twentieth century American poet, Frank O'Hara, and examines his connexions to other forms of artistic modernism an…
4 years, 7 months ago
CR Episode 94: The Macabre Verse of Edward Gorey
The panel follows the work of Poe and Lear to the macabre and surreal art of Edward Gorey, looking at four of his early, and most famous, works inclu…
4 years, 7 months ago
CR Episode 93: Edward Lear’s Complete Nonsense
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Who has written such volumes of stuff! Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But a few think him pleasant enough.Cont…
4 years, 7 months ago
CR Episode 92: The Gothic Romanticism of Edgar Allan Poe
The panel reads a selection of Poe's most significant verse, including "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee", and considers not only how Poe's use of Gothic …
4 years, 8 months ago
CR Episode 91: Complexity in Geoffrey Hill
The panel reads a small selection of poems by Geoffrey Hill, with a focus on his use of paradoxical language, complex metaphors, and highly imagistic…
4 years, 8 months ago