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CR Episode 30: Fun in the Snow with Thomas Hardy
The panel reads three poems by Thomas Hardy (including some with an appropriately hibernal theme), discusses Hardy's role in contemporary literature,…
6 years, 3 months ago
CR Episode 29: Introduction to W. B. Yeats
The panel considers multiple, potentially competing, readings of three poems from the early, middle, and late work of W. B. Yeats, covering three of …
6 years, 3 months ago
CR Episode 28: W. H. Auden’s Funeral Blues
The panel examines three poems by W. H. Auden, including his much-anthologised and potentially ironic 'Funeral Blues', the literary biography 'A Than…
6 years, 3 months ago
CR Episode 27: Longfellow’s Excelsior
The panel reads and surveys three poems by Longfellow: 'The Cross of Snow', 'The Day Is Done', and 'Excelsior', and makes a case for Longfellow's nar…
6 years, 3 months ago
CR Episode 26: Emily Dickinson on Death
The panel looks at three poems by Dickinson (nos. 280, 311, and 712) which all centre on a theme of mortality and endings, and discusses their import…
6 years, 4 months ago
CR Episode 25: Selections from Songs of Innocence and Experience
The panel examines four poems by William Blake from Songs of Innocence (Night, The Chimney Sweeper) and Songs of Experience (The Chimney Sweeper, A P…
6 years, 4 months ago
CR Episode 24: Keats on a Grecian Urn and to a Nightingale
The panel examines 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and 'Ode to a Nightingale' by Keats, focusing on the role of transience, mortality, stasis, truth, beauty, …
6 years, 5 months ago
CR Episode 23: Dante Gabriel Rosetti on Sleep
The panel discusses two 'sleep poems' of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: "Sleepless Dreams" from The House of Life, and the early poem "My Sister's Sleep", w…
6 years, 5 months ago
CR Episode 22: Goblin Market
The panel begins a fortnight-long feature on the Rossettis with an examination of Christina Georgina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market', including a reading …
6 years, 5 months ago
CR Episode 21: Christabel, Part II
The panel concludes their reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Christabel" by considering the function of Leoline's overabundant grief, examining th…
6 years, 5 months ago