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Back to SearchThe Dream of the Rood: Suffering is not the Enemy
Episode 76
Today, we continue our Lenten reflections on The Dream of the Rood. Join Erika Kyba as she discusses how the poet imagines the Cross as Christ's shie…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Dream of the Rood: The Tragedy and the Glory
Episode 75
Today, we enter into the Lenten season by reading The Dream of the Rood. Join Erika Kyba to meditate on the poet's reframing of the Crucifixion's tra…
8 months ago
The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross: The Road to Error
Episode 74
Today, we continue our journey through Spencer's Faerie Queene. Join Erika Kyba to analyze the forest symbolism that Spencer uses to set up the theme…
8 months, 1 week ago
The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross: What's Up With Una?
Episode 73
Today, we continue our journey through Spencer's Faerie Queene. Join Erika Kyba as she analyzes how Spencer draws a connection between the poem's fem…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross: An Untried Knight and a Lovely Maiden
Episode 72
Today, we continue our journey through Spencer's Faerie Queene. Erika Kyba discusses some of Spencer's typical conventions, such as introducing chara…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Prologue to the Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross: Choose Your Fighters
Episode 71
Today, Erika Kyba introduces you to Spencer's Faerie Queene. In this episode, we read the Prologue to the Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross (narr…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
The Milk-Maid and the Milk-Pail: Of Daydreams and Lost Opportunities
Episode 70
Today, Erika Kyba reads La Fontaine's "The Milk-Maid and the Milk-Pail," a witty and practical French fable about the danger of getting carried away …
9 months ago
We Should not Mind so Small a Flower: Restoring the Kingdom
Episode 69
Today, Erika Kyba reads Emily Dickinson's "We Should not Mind so Small a Flower," in which poet uses the flower of a mustard seed as a metaphor for G…
9 months, 1 week ago
Architect's Watercolor: Each Minute is Encounter
Episode 68
Today, Erika Kyba reads Arthur Sze's "Architect's Watercolor." This is a poem that toes the line between potentiality and reality.
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Comus: To Quench the Draught of Pheobus
Episode 67
Today, Erika Kyba continues to analyze Milton's "Comus," and we learn what makes the wicked spirit, Comus so dangerous: he menaces the rational facul…
10 months, 3 weeks ago