Episódios

  • CR Episode 260: The Second Coming of Yeats

    CR Episode 260: The Second Coming of Yeats
    Feb 24 2025
    The panel discusses four poems by Yeats, including his most famous—"The Second Coming"—as a way of examining his understanding of a cyclical cosmology, whilst also looking at his depiction of cataclysmic events that influence or constrain free will.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 14 minutos
  • CR Episode 259: John Berryman’s Eleven Addresses to the Lord

    CR Episode 259: John Berryman’s Eleven Addresses to the Lord
    Feb 17 2025
    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-Christian theology, with special emphasis on the distinction between God as abstraction and as embodied being.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 9 minutos
  • CR Episode 258: Tennyson’s Tiresias

    CR Episode 258: Tennyson’s Tiresias
    Feb 10 2025
    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 about the poet's struggle with human mortality, and about the role of prophecy and its reception.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 3 minutos
  • CR Episode 257: Tennyson’s Ulysses

    CR Episode 257: Tennyson’s Ulysses
    Feb 3 2025
    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 with his son, Telemachus; and what the nature of his heroism is—narrow, selfish, noble, or courageous.Continue reading
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    54 minutos
  • CR Episode 256: Tennyson’s Tithonus

    CR Episode 256: Tennyson’s Tithonus
    Jan 27 2025
    The panel reads Tennyson's "Tithonus," a dramatic monologue written in 1833, and considers both what the poem suggests about the importance of mortality to the human condition, and its significance in the context of the death of Arthur Hallam.Continue reading
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    50 minutos
  • CR Episode 255: Skelton’s Phyllyp Sparowe

    CR Episode 255: Skelton’s Phyllyp Sparowe
    Jan 20 2025
    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 roughly syllabic and strongly rhymed form of English poetry much beloved of the Henrician court.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 5 minutos
  • CR Episode 254: The Poetry of A.E. Housman

    CR Episode 254: The Poetry of A.E. Housman
    Jan 13 2025
    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 influences of Romanticism, the importance of the speaker's role, and the poetic ironies of his biography.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 9 minutos
  • CR Episode 253: Pope’s Messiah

    CR Episode 253: Pope’s Messiah
    Jan 6 2025
    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 qualities, its Late Augustan/pre-Romantic historical context, and its fusion of Classical and Hebraic imagery.Continue reading
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    51 minutos