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CR Episode 20: Christabel, Part I
The panel welcomes James Smoker, a Coleridge scholar at the University of St. Andrews, to discuss Coleridge, Christian Theology, the British Romantic…
6 years, 5 months ago
CR Episode 19: Coleridge’s Dream Poems
The panel discusses theological readings of three of Coleridge's most famous poems, all of which share the occasion of sleep as central to their acti…
6 years, 6 months ago
CR Episode 18: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part II
The panel discusses the second half of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, with particular attention given to the theology of the Mariner's sin, contrit…
6 years, 6 months ago
CR Episode 17: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part I
The panel discusses the first three parts of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, proposing the Ancient Mariner as a figure in transition from th…
6 years, 6 months ago
CR Episode 16: Lyrical Ballads, Part II
The panel begins to cross over from Wordsworth to Coleridge in the second of three episodes focused on Lyrical Ballads, addressing the role of nature…
6 years, 6 months ago
CR Episode 15: Lyrical Ballads, Part I
The panel discusses Romanticism and begins a three-week examination of selected poems from Lyrical Ballads, the experimental collection by Wordsworth…
6 years, 7 months ago
CR Episode 14: Gray’s Elegy
As the panel continues the transition from the Augustans to the Romantics, they turn their attention to the notoriously self-critical Thomas Gray, wh…
6 years, 7 months ago
CR Episode 13: The Deserted Village
The panel continues its focus on the poetry of the Augustan era of British letters, this time examining Goldsmith's poetic response to the increase o…
6 years, 7 months ago
CR Episode 12: Astræa Redux
Having concluded Paradise Lost, the panel moves from the poetry of Milton to the opposing views of one of his contemporaries, examining John Dryden, …
6 years, 7 months ago
CR Episode 11: Paradise Lost, Books XI and XII
The panel concludes Paradise Lost with an examination of Adam's hope and despair, differences between Michael and Raphael, biblical kingship, the wor…
6 years, 8 months ago