Critical Readings
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Episodes: 222
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Critical Readings examines key literary texts using close reading and critical analysis, and explains these approaches in discussion. Listeners will learn about the texts themselves and about how to approach a text for critical analysis.
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CR Episode 222: All for Love, Act II
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May 06, 2024 |
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CR Episode 221: All for Love, Act I
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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CR Episode 220: Antony and Cleopatra, Act V
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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CR Episode 219: Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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CR Episode 218: Antony and Cleopatra, Act III
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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CR Episode 217: Antony and Cleopatra, Act II
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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CR Episode 216: Antony and Cleopatra, Act I
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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CR Episode 215: Introduction to Lady Mary Wroth
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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CR Episode 214: The Poetry of N. Scott Momaday
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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CR Episode 213: Bartleby, the Scrivener
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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CR Episode 212: The Poetry of Amy Lowell
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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CR Episode 211: Later Poetry of Thomas Warton
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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CR Episode 210: Warton’s The Pleasures of Melancholy
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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CR Episode 209: Poetry of Robert Burns
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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CR Episode 208: Benito Cereno, Part II
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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CR Episode 207: Benito Cereno, Part I
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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CR Episode 206: A Christmas Carol, Part II
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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CR Episode 205: A Christmas Carol, Part I
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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CR Episode 204: Dracula, Part VI
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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CR Episode 203: Dracula, Part V
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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CR Episode 202: Dracula, Part IV
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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CR Episode 201: Dracula, Part III
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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CR Episode 200: Dracula, Part II
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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CR Episode 199: Dracula, Part I
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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CR Episode 198: Byron’s Hebrew Melodies
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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CR Episode 197: Hamlet, Act V
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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CR Episode 196: Hamlet, Act IV
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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CR Episode 195: Hamlet, Act III
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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CR Episode 194: Hamlet, Act II
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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CR Episode 193: Hamlet, Act I
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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CR Episode 192: Frankenstein, Part III
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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CR Episode 191: Frankenstein, Part II
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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CR Episode 190: Frankenstein, Part I
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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CR Episode 189: Sonnets of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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CR Episode 188: Moby Dick, Part XIV
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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CR Episode 187: Moby Dick, Part XIII
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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CR Episode 186: Moby Dick, Part XII
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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CR Episode 185: Moby Dick, Part XI
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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CR Episode 184: Moby Dick, Part X
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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CR Episode 183: Moby Dick, Part IX
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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CR Episode 182: Moby Dick, Part VIII
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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CR Episode 181: Moby Dick, Part VII
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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CR Episode 180: Moby Dick, Part VI
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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CR Episode 179: Moby Dick, Part V
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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CR Episode 178: Moby Dick, Part IV
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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CR Episode 177: Moby Dick, Part III
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May 29, 2023 |
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CR Episode 176: Moby Dick, Part II
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May 22, 2023 |
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CR Episode 175: Moby Dick, Part I
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May 15, 2023 |
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CR Episode 174: Shakespeare’s Lucrece, Part III
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May 08, 2023 |
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CR Episode 173: Shakespeare’s Lucrece, Part II
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May 01, 2023 |
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CR Episode 172: Shakespeare’s Lucrece, Part I
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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CR Episode 171: The Poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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CR Episode 170: Seamus Heaney’s Passion for the Past
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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CR Episode 169: The Poetry of Edgar Guest
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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CR Episode 168: The Poetry of Rupert Brooke
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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CR Episode 167: The Poetry of Wilfred Owen
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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CR Episode 166: H. P. Lovecraft’s Polaris
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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CR Episode 165: Pope’s Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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CR Episode 164: Tennyson’s Locksley Hall
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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CR Episode 163: Love and Death with Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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CR Episode 162: Thomas Babington Macaulay’s Horatius
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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CR Episode 161: James Joyce’s Chamber Music
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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CR Episode 160: The Poetry of Lewis Carroll
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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CR Episode 159: The Sangraal of Robert Stephen Hawker
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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CR Episode 158: Introduction to Thomas Traherne
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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CR Episode 157: Washington Irving’s Christmas
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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CR Episode 156: The Lay of the Children of Hurin, Part III
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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CR Episode 155: The Lay of the Children of Hurin, Part II
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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CR Episode 154: The Lay of the Children of Hurin, Part I
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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CR Episode 153: Poetry of Delmore Schwartz
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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CR Episode 152: Young Goodman Brown
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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CR Episode 151: Whitman and the Civil War, Part II
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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CR Episode 150: Whitman and the Civil War, Part I
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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CR Episode 149: Longfellow and the Civil War, Part II
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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CR Episode 148: Longfellow and the Civil War, Part I
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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CR Episode 147: Melville and the Civil War, Part II
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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CR Episode 146: Melville and the Civil War, Part I
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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CR Episode 145: E. E. Cummings on Nonconformity
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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CR Episode 144: Poetry for King Charles
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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CR Episode 143: Poetry In Memoriam Elizabeth II
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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CR Episode 142: The Poetry of James Weldon Johnson
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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CR Episode 141: Wordsworth’s Prelude, Book I
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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CR Episode 140: Ezra Pound’s Canto LXXIV
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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CR Episode 139: Idylls of the King, Part XII
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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CR Episode 138: Idylls of the King, Part XI
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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CR Episode 137: Idylls of the King, Part X
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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CR Episode 136: Idylls of the King, Part IX
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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CR Episode 135: Idylls of the King, Part VIII
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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CR Episode 134: Idylls of the King, Part VII
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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CR Episode 133: Idylls of the King, Part VI
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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CR Episode 132: Idylls of the King, Part V
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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CR Episode 131: Idylls of the King, Part IV
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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CR Episode 130: Idylls of the King, Part III
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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CR Episode 129: Idylls of the King, Part II
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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CR Episode 128: Idylls of the King, Part I
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May 30, 2022 |
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CR Episode 127: The Waste Land, Part IV
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May 23, 2022 |
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CR Episode 126: The Waste Land, Part III
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May 16, 2022 |
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CR Episode 125: The Waste Land, Part II
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May 02, 2022 |
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CR Episode 124: The Waste Land, Part I
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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CR Episode 123: Henry Vaughan
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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CR Episode 122: Owen Meredith
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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CR Episode 121: The Poetry of Robert Graves
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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CR Episode 120: The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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CR Episode 119: Pope and Wordsworth in Conversation
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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CR Episode 118: Introduction to Conrad Aiken
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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CR Episode 117: Milton’s Lycidas
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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CR Episode 116: Venus and Adonis
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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CR Episode 115: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part IV
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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CR Episode 114: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part III
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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CR Episode 113: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part II
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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CR Episode 112: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part I
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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CR Episode 111: Light Verse of Ogden Nash
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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CR Episode 110: The Poetry of Langston Hughes
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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CR Episode 109: H.M.S. Pinafore
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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CR Episode 108: William Carlos Williams and Minimalism
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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CR Episode 107: The Poetic Satire of Jonathan Swift
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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CR Episode 106: Scott’s The Lady of the Lake
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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CR Episode 105: The Poetic Arc of Ted Hughes
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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CR Episode 104: Form and Detail in the Poetry of Richard Wilbur
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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CR Episode 103: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Songs of Travel
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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CR Episode 102: Thomas Wyatt in the Tudor Court
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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CR Episode 101: Sylvia Plath
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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CR Episode 100: Shakespeare’s Sonnets
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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CR Episode 99: Hero and Leander
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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CR Episode 98: The Defence of Guenevere
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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CR Episode 97: Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Love and Death
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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CR Episode 96: Robert Browning’s Dramatic Verse
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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CR Episode 95: Frank O’Hara and Modernism
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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CR Episode 94: The Macabre Verse of Edward Gorey
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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CR Episode 93: Edward Lear’s Complete Nonsense
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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CR Episode 92: The Gothic Romanticism of Edgar Allan Poe
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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CR Episode 91: Complexity in Geoffrey Hill
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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CR Episode 90: Canterbury Tales XII – The Parson’s Tale and Chaucer’s Retraction
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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CR Episode 89: Canterbury Tales XI – The Second Nun’s, Canon’s Yeoman’s, and Manciple’s Tales
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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CR Episode 88: Canterbury Tales X – The Monk’s and the Nun’s Priest’s Tales
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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CR Episode 87: Canterbury Tales IX – The Shipman’s, Prioress’, and Chaucer’s Tales
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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CR Episode 86: Canterbury Tales VIII – The Physician’s and Pardoner’s Tales
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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CR Episode 85: Canterbury Tales VII – The Squire’s and Franklin’s Tales
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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CR Episode 84: Canterbury Tales VI – The Clerk’s and Merchant’s Tales
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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CR Episode 83: Canterbury Tales V – The Wife of Bath’s, Friar’s, and Summoner’s Tales
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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CR Episode 82: Canterbury Tales IV – The Man of Law’s Tale
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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CR Episode 81: Canterbury Tales III – The Miller’s, Reeve’s, and Cook’s Tales
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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CR Episode 80: Canterbury Tales II – The Knight’s Tale
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May 31, 2021 |
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CR Episode 79: Canterbury Tales I – General Prologue
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May 24, 2021 |
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CR Episode 78: Kipling, “If”, and The Great War
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May 17, 2021 |
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CR Episode 77: Ben Jonson’s Critical Eye
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May 10, 2021 |
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CR Episode 76: Excerpts from Leaves of Grass
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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CR Episode 75: Excerpts from Astrophil and Stella
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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CR Episode 74: Introduction to Abraham Cowley
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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CR Episode 73: Milton’s L’Allegro and Il Penseroso
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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CR Episode 72: Irony in the Poetry of Stephen Crane
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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CR Episode 71: Accepting Complexity in Melville’s Poetry
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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CR Episode 70: Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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CR Episode 69: Keats and The Eve of St. Agnes
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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CR Episode 68: Shelley, Ozymandias, and the Death of Keats
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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CR Episode 67: An Introduction to Lord Byron
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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CR Episode 66: Poetry and Verse of Robert W. Service
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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CR Episode 65: Three by Elizabeth Bishop
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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CR Episode 64: An Introduction to Philip Larkin
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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CR Episode 63: Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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CR Episode 62: Winter with Longfellow
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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CR Episode 61: Poetry and Prose of John Donne
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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CR Episode 60: The Ambiguous Andrew Marvell
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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CR Episode 59: Contradictory Verse of Robert Herrick
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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CR Episode 58: Religious Poetry of George Herbert
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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CR Episode 57: Cigars and Seaweed of James Russell Lowell
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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CR Episode 56: An Introduction to Robert Lowell
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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CR Episode 55: Wallace Stevens’ Harmonium
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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CR Episode 54: Pope’s Translation of The Iliad
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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CR Episode 53: Masefield’s Midsummer Night
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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CR Episode 52: The Faerie Queene, Mutabilitie Cantos
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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CR Episode 51: The Faerie Queene, Book VI, Cantos 7-12
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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CR Episode 50: The Faerie Queene, Book VI, Cantos 1-6
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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CR Episode 49: The Faerie Queene, Book V, Cantos 7-12
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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CR Episode 48: The Faerie Queene, Book V, Cantos 1-6
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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CR Episode 47: The Faerie Queene, Book IV, Cantos 7-12
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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CR Episode 46: The Faerie Queene, Book IV, Cantos 1-6
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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CR Episode 45: The Faerie Queene, Book III, Cantos 7-12
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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CR Episode 44: The Faerie Queene, Book III, Cantos 1-6
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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CR Episode 43: The Faerie Queene, Book II, Cantos 7-12
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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CR Episode 42: The Faerie Queene, Book II, Cantos 1-6
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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CR Episode 41: The Faerie Queene, Book I, Cantos 7-12
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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CR Episode 40: The Faerie Queene, Book I, Cantos 1-6
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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CR Episode 39: Robert Frost and the Road Not Taken
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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CR Episode 38: Betjeman’s Railways
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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CR Episode 37: William McGonagall and the Tay Bridge
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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CR Episode 36: Eliot’s Four Quartets IV – Little Gidding
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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CR Episode 35: Eliot’s Four Quartets III – The Dry Salvages
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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CR Episode 34: Eliot’s Four Quartets II – East Coker
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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CR Episode 33: Eliot’s Four Quartets I – Burnt Norton
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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CR Episode 32: Irish Poets II – Fallon, Kavanagh, Heaney
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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CR Episode 31: Irish Poets I – Allingham, Joyce, MacNeice
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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CR Episode 30: Fun in the Snow with Thomas Hardy
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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CR Episode 29: Introduction to W. B. Yeats
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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CR Episode 28: W. H. Auden’s Funeral Blues
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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CR Episode 27: Longfellow’s Excelsior
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Dec 30, 2019 |
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CR Episode 26: Emily Dickinson on Death
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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CR Episode 25: Selections from Songs of Innocence and Experience
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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CR Episode 24: Keats on a Grecian Urn and to a Nightingale
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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CR Episode 23: Dante Gabriel Rosetti on Sleep
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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CR Episode 22: Goblin Market
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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CR Episode 21: Christabel, Part II
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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CR Episode 20: Christabel, Part I
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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CR Episode 19: Coleridge’s Dream Poems
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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CR Episode 18: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part II
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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CR Episode 17: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part I
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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CR Episode 16: Lyrical Ballads, Part II
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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CR Episode 15: Lyrical Ballads, Part I
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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CR Episode 14: Gray’s Elegy
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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CR Episode 13: The Deserted Village
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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CR Episode 12: Astræa Redux
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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CR Episode 11: Paradise Lost, Books XI and XII
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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CR Episode 10: Paradise Lost, Book X
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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CR Episode 9: Paradise Lost, Book IX
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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CR Episode 8: Paradise Lost, Book VIII
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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CR Episode 7: Paradise Lost, Book VII
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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CR Episode 6: Paradise Lost, Book VI
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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CR Episode 5: Paradise Lost, Book V
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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CR Episode 4: Paradise Lost, Book IV
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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CR Episode 3: Paradise Lost, Book III
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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CR Episode 2: Paradise Lost, Book II
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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CR Episode 1: Paradise Lost, Book I
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Jun 17, 2019 |