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The Well Read Poem

The Well Read Poem


The Well Read Poem

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Length:
90 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

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Because reading is interpretation, The Well Read Poem aims to teach you how to read with understanding! Hosted by poet Thomas Banks of The House of Humane Letters, these short episodes will introduce you to both well-known and obscure poets and will focus on daily recitation, historical and intellectual background, elements of poetry, light explication, and more!

Play this podcast daily and practice reciting! The next week, get a new poem. Grow in your understanding and love of poetry by learning how to read well! Brought to you by The Literary Life Podcast.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

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S15E6: “Happy the Man, Who, Like Ulysses” by Joachim du Bellay trans. by Richard Wilbur

For this fifteenth season of the Well Read Poem, we are reading six poems in translatio...

10 minutes
Mar 18, 2024

S15E5: “Ask Not (Odes I.11)” by Horace (trans. by John Conington)

For this fifteenth season of the Well Read Poem, we are reading six poems in translatio...

11 minutes
Mar 11, 2024

S15E4: "I Do Not Like Thee, Doctor Fell" by Martial, trans. by Tom Brown

For this fifteenth season of the Well Read Poem, we are reading six poems in translatio...

10 minutes
Mar 04, 2024

S15E3: “The Cat” by Charles Baudelaire (trans. by Roy Campbell)

For this fifteenth season of the Well Read Poem, we are reading six poems in translatio...

9 minutes
Feb 26, 2024

S15E2: “Marsyas” by Jose-Maria de Heredia (trans. by Thomas Banks)

For this fifteenth season of the Well Read Poem, we are reading six poems in translatio...

8 minutes
Feb 19, 2024

S15E1: "On His Brother's Death" by Catullus (trans. by Aubrey Beardsley)

For this fifteenth season of the Well Read Poem, we want to thank Emily Williams Raible...

12 minutes
Feb 12, 2024

S14E6: "Christmas" by John Betjeman

As befits the time of year, we are reading six poems of Advent and Christmas during thi...

12 minutes
Jan 01, 2024

S14E5: "Noël" by Théophile Gautier

As befits the time of year, we will be reading six poems of Advent and Christmas during...

8 minutes
Dec 25, 2023

S14E4: "Good King Wenceslas" by Vaclav Svoboda, trans. by John Mason Neale

As befits the time of year, we will be reading six poems of Advent and Christmas during...

10 minutes
Dec 18, 2023

S14E3: "Christmas Carol" by Sara Teasdale

As befits the time of year, we will be reading six poems of Advent and Christmas during...

9 minutes
Dec 11, 2023