Rusty Sonnets - Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold
It’s been a while but Rusty Sonnets sneaks in a final track for 2020. This episode looks at the angsty Dover honeymoon of the Victorian poet Matthew A...
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Rusty Sonnets - Paradise Lost Book Club Part 4
This week’s Rusty Sonnets marks the fourth episode of our monthly Paradise Lost Book Club. Always wanted to read Paradise Lost but felt the great tome...
Rusty Sonnets - Paradise Lost Book Club Part 3
This week’s Rusty Sonnets marks the third episode of our monthly Paradise Lost Book Club. Always wanted to read Paradise Lost but felt the great tome ...
Rusty Sonnets - Paradise Lost Book Club Part 2
This week’s Rusty Sonnets marks the second episode of our monthly Paradise Lost Book Club. Always wanted to read Paradise Lost but felt the great tome...
Rusty Sonnets #33 - I Give You Ample Leave By George Eliot
On this week's Rusty Sonnets we look into George Eliot's musing of the selfless "bubble world" in her unpublished poem, I Give You Ample Leave. I then...
Rusty Sonnets - Paradise Lost Book Club Part 1
This week’s Rusty Sonnets marks the first episode of our monthly Paradise Lost Book Club. Always wanted to read Paradise Lost but felt the great tome ...
Rusty Sonnets #32 - The Burning Babe By Robert Southwell
Welcome to our late Christmas episode of Rusty Sonnets! Today we look at the Jesuit martyr Robert Southwell and his nightmarish vision of the spirit o...
Rusty Sonnets #31 - Song of Hope by Thomas Hardy
In this week’s Rusty Sonnets we look for optimism from a seemingly unexpected source, the pessimistic poet and novelist, Thomas Hardy. 00.00 Intro and...
Rusty Sonnets #30 Soliloquy on an Empty Purse by Mary Jones
In today’s Rusty Sonnets we ask whether virtue can accompany poverty by visiting the witty, down to earth poetry of Oxford’s first postmistress, Mary ...
Rusty Sonnets # 29 - Carrion Comfort by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Today we look at Manley Hopkins’s sonnet on how wrestling with despair is actually a grapple with God. I then wander off on one about wrestling. 00.00...