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CR Episode 290: Pride and Prejudice, Part I
The panel reads chapters 1–17 of Pride and Prejudice, with special attention to the developing form of the novel in the Regency era, the biographical…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
CR Episode 289: E.A. Robinson’s Gothic Verse
The panel discusses five poems by E.A. Robinson, with discussion centring on their use of the gothic, their shared imagery of death and hell (and the…
7 months ago
CR Episode 288: Edwin Muir’s Narrow Place
The panel discusses four poems from Edwin Muir's collection The Narrow Place (1943), with a focus on their formal features, their connexion to a vers…
7 months, 1 week ago
CR Episode 287: The Beginnings of English Poetry
The panel discusses two of the earliest examples of English poetry—Caedmon's Hymn and The Dream of the Rood (sometimes attributed to Cynewulf)—with a…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
CR Episode 286: The Rape of the Lock, Part II
The panel discusses the concluding three cantos, with attention to Pope's heroi-comic satire of epic in both content and form, and his use of referen…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
CR Episode 285: The Rape of the Lock, Part I
The panel discusses the first two cantos of Alexander Pope's heroi-comical peacemaker poem, with special attention to its use of foreshadowing, the s…
8 months ago
CR Episode 284: Poetry and Music
The panel is joined by the novelist H.S. Cross to discuss three poems that have been famously set to music: "The Lark Ascending" by George Meredith, …
8 months, 1 week ago
CR Episode 283: Tristram Shandy, Part XIV
The panel concludes the summer reading with the ninth and final book of Tristram Shandy, compassing the manner of the liaison between Uncle Toby and …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
CR Episode 282: Tristram Shandy, Part XIII
The panel reads the conclusion of the eighth book, with attention to metaphorical fortifications and battle plans, a tale of one-sided love between C…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
CR Episode 281: Tristram Shandy, Part XII
The panel discusses the books seven and eight, with particular attention to the parallel narratives used to describe the approach to Lyons, the diffe…
9 months ago