CR Episode 99: Hero and Leander
The panel reads Christopher Marlowe's most famous poem, Hero and Leander, discussing its rich and provocative imagery, classical allusions, and levels...
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Presented by Akademician.com, 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.
CR Episode 98: The Defence of Guenevere
The panel reads a single, long poem--"The Defence of Guenevere"--by the Victorian artisan, translator, novelist, and poet William Morris, giving speci...
CR Episode 97: Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Love and Death
The panel reads four poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, including three sonnets, and discusses the excellence of her formal expertise and poetic sty...
CR Episode 96: Robert Browning’s Dramatic Verse
The panel reads three poems of the greatly esteemed Victorian poet, Robert Browning, including "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's", "Andrea d...
CR Episode 95: Frank O’Hara and Modernism
The panel reads three poems by mid-twenty-first century American poet, Frank O'Hara, and examines his connexions to other forms of artistic modernism ...
CR Episode 94: The Macabre Verse of Edward Gorey
The panel follows the work of Poe and Lear to the macabre and surreal art of Edward Gorey, looking at four of his early, and most famous, works includ...
CR Episode 93: Edward Lear’s Complete Nonsense
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Who has written such volumes of stuff! Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But a few think him pleasant enough.
CR Episode 92: The Gothic Romanticism of Edgar Allan Poe
The panel reads a selection of Poe's most significant verse, including "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee", and considers not only how Poe's use of Gothic a...
CR Episode 91: Complexity in Geoffrey Hill
The panel reads a small selection of poems by Geoffrey Hill, with a focus on his use of paradoxical language, complex metaphors, and highly imagistic ...
CR Episode 90: Canterbury Tales XII – The Parson’s Tale and Chaucer’s Retraction
The panel concludes its summer reading of The Canterbury Tales with a look at penitence, sin, and freedom in The Parson's Tale, and then considers whe...