The Well Read Poem
By Thomas Banks
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Niveditha Christina
Nov 19, 2021
listener from India .find this podcast very educational and informative ..
Meg
Jan 23, 2021
We just listened to the first episode and thoroughly enjoyed it. I am incorporating this into our homeschool day and using it to develop a better understanding of poetry for my children and myself. We look forward to many more!
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S19E6: "Aubade" by Philip Larkin
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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S19E5: "The Twa Corbies" Anonymous Scottish
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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S19E4: "Ecclesiastes 12" from the King James Version
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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S19E3: "Elegies 11.28" by Propertius (Translated by Constance Carrier)
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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S19E2: "On a Dead Child" by Robert Bridges
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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S19E1: "Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke" by William Browne
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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S18E6: "A Prayer for My Daughter" by William Butler Yeats
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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S18E5: "To My Brothers" by John Keats
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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S18E4: "Satire 6, Book 1" by Horace (trans. by John Conington)
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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S18E3: "To My Mother" by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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S18E2: "Forefathers" by Edmund Blunden
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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S18E1: "My Sister's Sleep" by Dante Rosetti
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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S17E6: "The Dissolution of the Monasteries" by William Wordsworth
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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S17E5: "Poem of a Proposition of Nakedness" by Walt Whitman
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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S17E4: "To a Republican Friend" by Matthew Arnold
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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S17E3: "Sonnet 11: On the Desecration Which Followed My Writing Certain Treatises" by John Milton
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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S17E2: "The Death of King Charles II" by John Dryden
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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S17E1: "On the Jubilee of Queen Victoria" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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S16E6: "Summer" by Christina Rossetti
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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S16E5: "On the Move" by Thom Gunn
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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S16E4: "Adlestrop" by Edward Thomas
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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S16E3: "July, 1964" by Donald Davie
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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S16E2: "The Lonely Hunter" by William Sharp
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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S16E1: "Summer Sun" by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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S15E6: “Happy the Man, Who, Like Ulysses” by Joachim du Bellay trans. by Richard Wilbur
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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S15E5: “Ask Not (Odes I.11)” by Horace (trans. by John Conington)
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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S15E4: "I Do Not Like Thee, Doctor Fell" by Martial, trans. by Tom Brown
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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S15E3: “The Cat” by Charles Baudelaire (trans. by Roy Campbell)
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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S15E2: “Marsyas” by Jose-Maria de Heredia (trans. by Thomas Banks)
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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S15E1: "On His Brother's Death" by Catullus (trans. by Aubrey Beardsley)
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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S14E6: "Christmas" by John Betjeman
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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S14E5: "Noël" by Théophile Gautier
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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S14E4: "Good King Wenceslas" by Vaclav Svoboda, trans. by John Mason Neale
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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S14E3: "Christmas Carol" by Sara Teasdale
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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S14E2: "Mistletoe" by Walter de la Mare
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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S14E1: "The Magi" by William Butler Yeats
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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S13E6: “The English War” by Dorothy L. Sayers
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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S13E5: "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" by Charles Wolfe
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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S13E4: "Into Battle" by Julian Grenfell
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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S13E3: “To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars” by Richard Lovelace
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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S13E2: “To Pompeius” Ode 2.7 by Horace, trans. by John Davidson
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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S13E1: "David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan", 2 Samuel 1, KJV
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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S12E6: Idea 61, "Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part" by Michael Drayton
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May 15, 2023 |
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S12E5: Delia 45, “Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night” by Samuel Daniel
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May 08, 2023 |
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S12E4: Sonnet 138, "When my love swears that she is made of truth"
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May 01, 2023 |
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S12E3: Sonnet 106, “When in the chronicle of wasted time” by William Shakespeare
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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S12E2: Sonnet 18, "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" by William Shakespeare
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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S12E1: Sonnet 1, "From fairest creatures we desire increase" by William Shakespeare
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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S11E6: "On Shakespeare" by John Milton
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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S11E5: “Edward Lear” by W.H. Auden
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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S11E4: “To Walter de la Mare” by T. S. Elliot
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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S11E3: “The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel” by John Betjeman
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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S11E2: “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer” by John Keats
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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S11E1: “The Lost Leader” by Robert Browning
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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S10E6: "The British Journalist" by Humbert Wolfe
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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S10E5: "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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S10E4: "Surgeons must be very careful" by Emily Dickinson
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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S10E3: "The Song of the Shirt" by Thomas Hood
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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S10E2: "Men Who March Away" by Thomas Hardy
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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S10E1: "Fanfare for the Makers" by Louis MacNeice
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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S9E6: "Loveliest of Trees" by A. E. Houseman
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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S9E5: "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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S9E4: "To Autumn" by John Keats
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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S9E3: "Bed in Summer" by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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S9E2: "Sumer is I-cumin In" by Anonymous
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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S9E1: "The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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S8E6: "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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S8E5: "Old Adam, the Carrion Crow" by Thomas Beddoes
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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S8E4: "Le Corbeau et le Renard (The Crow and the Fox)" by Jean de la Fontaine
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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S8E3: "The Oven Bird" by Robert Frost
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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S8E2: "The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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S8E1: "Les Hiboux (The Owls)" by Charles Baudelaire
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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S7E6: "Love Poem" by John Frederick Nims
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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S7E5: "O Tell Me the Truth About Love" by W. H. Auden
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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S7E4: Remember Me by Christina Rossetti
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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S7E3: "Mother, I cannot Mind my Wheel" by Walter Savage Landor
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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S7E2: "Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" by William Shakespeare
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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S7E1: "A Farewell to Arms" by George Peele
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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S6E6: "A Sonnet (Two Voices Are There)" By James Kenneth Stephenson
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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S6E5: “A Satire Against Mankind” by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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S6E4: “To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitator of His and Mine” by William Butler Yeats
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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S6E3: "Zimri" from "Absalom and Achitophel" by John Dryden
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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S6E2: "Atticus" by Alexander Pope
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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S6E1: "On a General Election" by Hilaire Belloc
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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S5E6: "Summer Evening" by Walter de la Mare
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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S5E5: "Alexander" by Walter de la Mare
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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S5E4: "Polonius" by Walter de la Mare
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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S5E3: "Breughel's Winter" by Walter de la Mare
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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S5E2: "Ghost" by Walter de la Mare
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S5E1: "All That's Past" by Walter de la Mare
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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S4E6: "The Blinded Bird" by Thomas Hardy
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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S4E5: "A Runnable Stag" by John Davidson
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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S4E4: “Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Highness” by Alexander Pope
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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S4E3: "The Kraken" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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S4E2: "Infant Innocence" by A. E. Houseman
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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S4E1: "Auguries of Innocence" by William Blake
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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S3E6: "Anthem for St. Cecilia's Day" by W. H. Auden
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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S3E5: "Epitaph on a Tyrant" by W. H. Auden
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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S3E4: "Luther" by W. H. Auden
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May 31, 2021 |
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S3E3: "Roman Wall Blues" by W. H. Auden
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May 24, 2021 |