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The Long and Short: Ted Hughes's 'Gaudete'
Season 6 Episode 9
Originally conceived as a film script, 'Gaudete' is Ted Hughes’s apocalyptic vision of an English village in the throes of pagan forces. While it may…
2 years, 8 months ago
Among the Ancients: Virgil
Season 5 Episode 9
In the ninth episode of Among the Ancients, Emily and Tom arrive at Virgil, focusing on his 12-book epic the Aeneid, which describes the wanderings o…
2 years, 8 months ago
Medieval Beginnings: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Season 4 Episode 9
Chaucer’s 14th century tale of ‘double sorrow’, Troilus and Criseyde, set during the siege of Troy, is the subject of Irina and Mary’s ninth episode …
2 years, 8 months ago
The Long and Short: James Joyce's Dubliners
Season 6 Episode 8
James Joyce wrote most of the short stories in his landmark collection, Dubliners, when he was still in his 20s, but a tortuous publishing history, d…
2 years, 9 months ago
Among the Ancients: Lucretius
Season 5 Episode 8
In their eighth episode of Among the Ancients, Emily and Tom look at a contemporary of Catullus, Lucretius, and the only poem we have from him, De re…
2 years, 9 months ago
Medieval Beginnings: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Season 4 Episode 8
In this episode of Medieval Beginnings, Irina and Mary jump to the 14th century for an introspective Arthurian romance about a knight trying to live …
2 years, 9 months ago
The Long and Short: Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ and ‘Kaddish’
Season 6 Episode 7
Seamus and Mark step into the counterculture with two long poems, ‘Howl’ and ‘Kaddish’, by Allen Ginsberg, a Beat poet-celebrity with a utopian visio…
2 years, 10 months ago
Among the Ancients: Catullus
Season 5 Episode 7
For the second half of their Among the Ancients series, Emily and Tom move to Ancient Rome, starting with the late Republican poet Catullus. Describe…
2 years, 10 months ago
Medieval Beginnings: Havelok the Dane
Season 4 Episode 7
In their seventh episode of Medieval Beginnings, Irina and Mary continue their run of Romances with the Middle English Havelok the Dane, a double Cin…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Long and Short: D.H. Lawrence's short stories
Season 6 Episode 6
Controversial, compulsive, and overwhelmingly charismatic, D.H. Lawrence continues to exert an undeniable magnetism through his novels and poetry. Bu…
2 years, 11 months ago