Episódios

  • CR Episode 288: Edwin Muir’s Narrow Place

    CR Episode 288: Edwin Muir’s Narrow Place
    Sep 15 2025
    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 version of Nietzsche's philosophy, and their opposed characterisation of the civilised and natural worlds.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 21 minutos
  • CR Episode 287: The Beginnings of English Poetry

    CR Episode 287: The Beginnings of English Poetry
    Sep 8 2025
    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 discussion of translation theory, Saxon influence, and the development of English poetry and language.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 16 minutos
  • CR Episode 286: The Rape of the Lock, Part II

    CR Episode 286: The Rape of the Lock, Part II
    Sep 1 2025
    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 references to his own involvement in the real-life events enacted by the poem's fictional protagonists.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 17 minutos
  • CR Episode 285: The Rape of the Lock, Part I

    CR Episode 285: The Rape of the Lock, Part I
    Aug 25 2025
    The panel discusses the first two cantos of Alexander Pope's heroi-comical peacemaker poem, with special attention to its use of foreshadowing, the style and tenor of its dialogue, and its allegedly Rosicrucian spiritology (and its textual origins).Continue reading
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    1 hora e 21 minutos
  • CR Episode 284: Poetry and Music

    CR Episode 284: Poetry and Music
    Aug 18 2025
    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, "Most Glorious Lord of Life" by Edmund Spenser, and "Three Songs for St. Cecilia's Day" by W.H. Auden.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 11 minutos
  • CR Episode 283: Tristram Shandy, Part XIV

    CR Episode 283: Tristram Shandy, Part XIV
    Aug 4 2025
    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 the Widow Wadman, with special attention to Toby's wound, Trim's knee, and Mrs. Shandy's constant purity.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 22 minutos
  • CR Episode 282: Tristram Shandy, Part XIII

    CR Episode 282: Tristram Shandy, Part XIII
    Jul 28 2025
    The panel reads the conclusion of the eighth book, with attention to metaphorical fortifications and battle plans, a tale of one-sided love between Corporal Trim and a Nursing Nun, and a budding romance between Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman.Continue reading
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    1 hora
  • CR Episode 281: Tristram Shandy, Part XII

    CR Episode 281: Tristram Shandy, Part XII
    Jul 21 2025
    The panel discusses the books seven and eight, with particular attention to the parallel narratives used to describe the approach to Lyons, the different forms of bad luck Tristram encounters there, and the Widow Wadman's love for Uncle Toby.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 16 minutos