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CR Episode 70: Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard
In a return to the works of Alexander Pope, the panel reads his "Eloisa to Abelard" in full and discusses the complexity of Eloisa's tragic circumsta…
5 years, 1 month ago
CR Episode 69: Keats and The Eve of St. Agnes
The panel discusses the late Romantic shift in focus from nominally Christian, deified Nature to transcendental beauty in three longer works by Keats…
5 years, 1 month ago
CR Episode 68: Shelley, Ozymandias, and the Death of Keats
The panel engages in a wide-ranging discussion of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his relation to the early and late Romantic movements, his work to establi…
5 years, 1 month ago
CR Episode 67: An Introduction to Lord Byron
The panel begins a multi-week review of Romanticism with a review of the movement's (and the author's) effects upon poetry, including readings of thr…
5 years, 2 months ago
CR Episode 66: Poetry and Verse of Robert W. Service
The panel discusses the difference between verse and poetry (including whether such a difference exists), and examines three 'frosty' poems by Servic…
5 years, 2 months ago
CR Episode 65: Three by Elizabeth Bishop
The panel considers the role of time, colour, militarism, rhyme, repetition, meter, and other formal poetic aspects in three of the more popular and …
5 years, 2 months ago
CR Episode 64: An Introduction to Philip Larkin
The panel examines the complicated irony of Philip Larkin's verse, and considers his use of poetic formalism, and themes including rebelliousness, ni…
5 years, 2 months ago
CR Episode 63: Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis
The panel continues to welcome in a new year by looking back to an old year--in this case, A.D. 1666, and Dryden's poem "Annus Mirabilis", which rumi…
5 years, 3 months ago
CR Episode 62: Winter with Longfellow
As the new year dawns, the panel revisits the work of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the quintessential Fireside Poet, to reexamine some favourites (Exc…
5 years, 3 months ago
CR Episode 61: Poetry and Prose of John Donne
If it must be Donne, let it be done well! The panel reads Donne's selected poetry and prose: a Christmas sermon, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, "…
5 years, 3 months ago