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CR Episode 260: The Second Coming of Yeats
The panel discusses four poems by Yeats, including his most famous—"The Second Coming"—as a way of examining his understanding of a cyclical cosmolog…
1 year, 2 months ago
CR Episode 259: John Berryman’s Eleven Addresses to the Lord
The panel reads John Berryman's "Eleven Addresses to the Lord" and considers the poems within the context of the author's biography and Judeo-Christi…
1 year, 2 months ago
CR Episode 258: Tennyson’s Tiresias
The panel reads Tennyson's Tiresias and considers its story of the blind prophet's extended (but not eternal) life in the context of what it reveals …
1 year, 2 months ago
CR Episode 257: Tennyson’s Ulysses
The panel reads Tennyson's Ulysses with special attention given to how the return to Ithaca changed Ulysses; how he may be compared to and contrasted…
1 year, 2 months ago
CR Episode 256: Tennyson’s Tithonus
The panel reads Tennyson's "Tithonus," a dramatic monologue written in 1833, and considers both what the poem suggests about the importance of mortal…
1 year, 3 months ago
CR Episode 255: Skelton’s Phyllyp Sparowe
The panel reads "The Boke of Phyllyp Sparowe" by the Tudor poet John Skelton, a poetic champion of Chaucer, and the inventor of Skeltonic verse, a ro…
1 year, 3 months ago
CR Episode 254: The Poetry of A.E. Housman
The panel reads three poems by A.E. Housman, the renowned British classicist and poet, and discusses the presence of death in his poetry, the influen…
1 year, 3 months ago
CR Episode 253: Pope’s Messiah
The panel reads Alexander Pope's "Messiah," based upon Virgil's Fourth Eclogue and the biblical Book of Isaiah, with a discussion of its formal quali…
1 year, 3 months ago
CR Episode 252: Julius Caesar, Act V
The panel reads the final act, reflecting on the role of Brutus as a tragic figure, with attention given to his relationship with Cassius, his misund…
1 year, 3 months ago
CR Episode 251: Julius Caesar, Act IV
The panel reads the fourth act, with special attention to the fraught relationship between Brutus and Cassius, the political situation in the late Ro…
1 year, 4 months ago