S. P. Cooper

CR Episode 69: Keats and The Eve of St. Agnes

8 March 2021 S. P. Cooper

The panel discusses the late Romantic shift in focus from nominally Christian, deified Nature to transcendental beauty in three longer works by Keats, including "The Eve of St. Agnes" and excerpts from "Endymion" and the unfinished "Hyperion".

CR Episode 68: Shelley, Ozymandias, and the Death of Keats

1 March 2021 S. P. Cooper

The panel engages in a wide-ranging discussion of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his relation to the early and late Romantic movements, his work to establish the reputation of Keats, his association with radical politics, and his own untimely death, aged 29.

CR Episode 67: An Introduction to Lord Byron

22 February 2021 S. P. Cooper

The panel begins a multi-week review of Romanticism with a review of the movement's (and the author's) effects upon poetry, including readings of three works: "Darkness", "The Destruction of Sennacherib", and excerpts from "The Bride of Abydos".

CR Episode 66: Poetry and Verse of Robert W. Service

15 February 2021 S. P. Cooper

The panel discusses the difference between verse and poetry (including whether such a difference exists), and examines three 'frosty' poems by Service, including "Pullman Porter", "The Prospector", and his famous ballad, "The Cremation of Sam McGee".

CR Episode 65: Three by Elizabeth Bishop

8 February 2021 S. P. Cooper

The panel considers the role of time, colour, militarism, rhyme, repetition, meter, and other formal poetic aspects in three of the more popular and widely-anthologised poems written by Elizabeth Bishop: "Roosters", "The Fish", and "One Art".

CR Episode 64: An Introduction to Philip Larkin

1 February 2021 S. P. Cooper

The panel examines the complicated irony of Philip Larkin's verse, and considers his use of poetic formalism, and themes including rebelliousness, nihilism, love, and impermanence, in "This Be the Verse", "Aubade", "An Arundel Tomb", and "Days".

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