
George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron
Download Link: Released 2021.02.22
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”.
Tags: Darkness, Hebrew Melodies, Lord Byron, Poetry, Romanticism, The Bride of Abydos, The Destruction of Sennacherib

Elizabeth Bishop
Download Link: Released 2021.02.08
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”.
Tags: Elizabeth Bishop, One Art, Poetry, Roosters, The Fish

Philip Larkin
Download Link: Released 2021.02.01
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”.
Tags: An Arundel Tomb, Aubade, Days, High Windows, Philip Larkin, This Be the Verse, Whitsun Weddings

John Dryden, by Sir Godfrey Kneller
Download Link: Released 2021.01.11
The panel continues to welcome in a new year by looking back to an old year–in this case, A.D. 1666, and Dryden’s poem “Annus Mirabilis”, which ruminates on the wonders of war with Holland, the Great Fire of London, and the heroic conduct of Charles II.
Tags: Annus Mirabilis, John Dryden

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868
Download Link: Released 2021.01.04
As the new year dawns, the panel revisits the work of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the quintessential Fireside Poet, to reexamine some favourites (Excelsior, The Day Is Done) and some poems which are new to the podcast (Psalm of Life, Paul Revere’s Ride).
Tags: Excelsior, Paul Revere's Ride, Psalm of Life, Tales of a Wayside Inn, The Day Is Done, The Landlord's Tale

John Donne, painted by Isaac Oliver
Download Link: Released 2020.12.28
If it must be Donne, let it be done well! The panel reads Donne’s selected poetry and prose: a Christmas sermon, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, “The Flea”, and selections from both “La Corona” and “Holy Sonnets”.
Tags: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Death Be Not Proud, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Holy Sonnets, John Donne, La Corona, Poetry, Prose, The Flea