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Reckoning with Mortality in Tennyson's 'Ulysses' & 'Tithonus'
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Gods, Mortals and Humanity: Modern Mythologies with Louise Glück
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Forever Stories: The Ballad Form
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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The Poetry of Ireland: Landscapes, Histories and Mythologies
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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The Poetic Singularity of Emily Dickinson
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Making a Poet Laureate: Simon Armitage
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Imagism in America with William Carlos Williams (Imagist Mini-Series)
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Defining a Movement with Hilda Dolittle (Imagist Mini-Series)
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Founding a Movement with Ezra Pound (Imagist Mini-Series)
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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The Complete Anatomy of a Love Poem
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Answering Community Questions with Joe & Maiya
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Writing Urban Landscapes in Ai Ogawa's 'The Man with the Saxophone'
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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The Ode Form: Keats, Neruda, Brontë & Boland
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Faith and Femininity in Christina Rossetti's 'Remember'
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Blood, Sweat & Song: Langston Hughes in Four Poems
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner': Navigating Troubled Waters with Coleridge
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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'Our Casuarina Tree': Bridging Continents with Toro Dutt
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Illusions of Power in Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess': Behind the Curtain
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Japanese Poetry: Delving into Haiku
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Beyond the Verse: A Year in Review
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Ancestral Rituals & Encroaching Modernity: Mamang Dai's 'Small Towns and the River'
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May 22, 2025 |
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Writing the Real World: Tennyson's 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'
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May 09, 2025 |
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The Makings of a Movement: The Metaphysical Poets
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May 01, 2025 |
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Beauty on the Wing: 'Ode to a Nightingale' by John Keats
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night: Writing against Mortality with Dylan Thomas
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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A Modernist Manifesto: Exploring T. S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Resurrecting the Dead: Poetic Exorcisms in Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy' & 'Lady Lazarus'
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Reflecting on the War Years with Siegfried Sassoon (WWI Mini-Series)
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Wilfred Owen and Changing Attitudes Towards the War (WWI Mini-Series)
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Rupert Brooke & The Romance of War (WWI Mini-Series)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Taylor Swift & Contemporary Poetry: Talking 'Invisible Strings' with Kristie Frederick-Daugherty
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Chinua Achebe's 'Love Cycle': Exploring Tensions and Harmonies in Post-Colonial Poetry
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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'Because I Could Not Stop For Death': Emily Dickinson's Mediation on Mortality
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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'Ozymandias' and the Ruins of Power: Shelley's Vision of Empire
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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From Innocence to Experience: William Blake's 'The Tyger'
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Reflections of the Romantics: Wordsworth's 'I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud'
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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'How Do I Love Thee?': Love Letters from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation': Decoding Racial Satire
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Haunting the Canon: Poe's 'The Raven' and the Gothic Tradition
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Contrasting Femininities: 'An Introduction' by Kamala Das
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Fair Youth and The Dark Lady
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Tens Years of PoemAnalysis.com with Will, the Founder (and Poetry+ Questions)
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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'The Second Coming': Yeats and the Apocalypse
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Rudyard Kipling's 'If': Fatherhood, Masculinity and Legacy Through Time
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Searching for Sappho: 'The Anactoria Poem'
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Poetry+ Question Time: Debunking Stereotypes, Poetic Movements, and More
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Inconsistent Miracles in Danez Smith's 'dear white america'
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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The Spade, The Pen and The Gun: 'Digging' through the Past with Seamus Heaney
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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'The Road Not Taken': (Mis)Understanding Robert Frost
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Maya Angelou's 'Still I Rise': Remaking, Recycling, and the Language of Erasure
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Journeying into Poetry: Answering Poetry+ User Questions
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Jul 08, 2024 |