The Well Read Poem
Books & Literature
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.
Location:
United States
Description:
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
Website:
http://www.theliterary.life
S15E6: “Happy the Man, Who, Like Ulysses” by Joachim du Bellay trans. by Richard Wilbur
Duration:00:10:02
S15E5: “Ask Not (Odes I.11)” by Horace (trans. by John Conington)
Duration:00:11:22
S15E4: "I Do Not Like Thee, Doctor Fell" by Martial, trans. by Tom Brown
Duration:00:10:14
S15E3: “The Cat” by Charles Baudelaire (trans. by Roy Campbell)
Duration:00:09:24
S15E2: “Marsyas” by Jose-Maria de Heredia (trans. by Thomas Banks)
Duration:00:08:40
S15E1: "On His Brother's Death" by Catullus (trans. by Aubrey Beardsley)
Duration:00:12:51
S14E6: "Christmas" by John Betjeman
Duration:00:12:01
S14E5: "Noël" by Théophile Gautier
Duration:00:08:19
S14E4: "Good King Wenceslas" by Vaclav Svoboda, trans. by John Mason Neale
Duration:00:10:17
S14E3: "Christmas Carol" by Sara Teasdale
Duration:00:09:16
S14E2: "Mistletoe" by Walter de la Mare
Duration:00:10:38
S14E1: "The Magi" by William Butler Yeats
Duration:00:11:30
S13E6: “The English War” by Dorothy L. Sayers
Duration:00:07:39
S13E5: "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" by Charles Wolfe
Duration:00:09:14
S13E4: "Into Battle" by Julian Grenfell
Duration:00:08:19
S13E3: “To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars” by Richard Lovelace
Duration:00:10:08
S13E2: “To Pompeius” Ode 2.7 by Horace, trans. by John Davidson
Duration:00:15:36
S13E1: "David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan", 2 Samuel 1, KJV
Duration:00:11:07
S12E6: Idea 61, "Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part" by Michael Drayton
Duration:00:11:52
S12E5: Delia 45, “Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night” by Samuel Daniel
Duration:00:12:50