Beci Carver on Thomas Hardy ("The Voice")

Beci Carver on Thomas Hardy ("The Voice")

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Siobhan Phillips on Marianne Moore ("Armor's Undermining Modesty")

"What is more precise than precision? Illusion." I talked with my friend, the scholar Siobhan Phillips, about Marianne Moore's poem "Armor's Undermining Modesty." Siobhan Phillips is a professor of English at Dickinson College, where she teaches courses on American literature of ...  عرض المزيد

Megan Quigley on T. S. Eliot ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock")

"Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" I've been waiting to record this episode for a long time: Megan Quigley, my dear friend and colleague, joins the podcast to talk about T. S. Eliot and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."Megan Quigley is an associate professor of English at V ...  عرض المزيد

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Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice - Rerun
Backlisted

A classic episode from 2018 with a new introduction. This week John and Andy are joined by actor and director Sam West and writer and academic Sophie Ratcliffe to talk about Louis MacNeice's Autumn Journal. The poem was composed in the autumn of 1938 while Britain awaited the dec ...  عرض المزيد

Love and Death: ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ by Thomas Gray
Close Readings

Situated on the cusp of the Romantic era, Thomas Gray’s work is a mixture of impersonal Augustan abstraction and intense subjectivity. ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ is one of the most famous poems in the English language, and continues to exert its influence on contempo ...  عرض المزيد

A.O. Scott on the Joy of Close Reading Poetry
The Book Review

On this week's episode, A.O. Scott joins host Gilbert Cruz to talk about the value of close reading poetry. And New York Times Book Review poetry editor Greg Cowles recommends four recently published collections worth reading.

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A DM from a listener inspired us...
Style-ish

We recently received a listener DM about loneliness, which inspired us to do something different from our usual episodes. So, let us welcome you to our new segment, R U WELL? We’re asking you, our listeners, your thoughts and feelings on an array of lifestyle and wellness topics. ...  عرض المزيد