Thoughtful Analysis of Essential Literature.
Poetry and Prose
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I had so much fun discussing poetry set to music (some of which features in my upcoming novel AMANDA) on Crticial Readings with @d_n_keane and @Prof_Cooper They are wonderful minds and lovers of art and literature. criticalreadings.com/2025/08ā¦
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Due to the widespread post-hurricane power-outages affecting the area where @d_n_keane lives, there will be no new podcast on Monday, 30 September.
We hope that power will be swiftly restored and that we will have a new episode for you on 7 October!
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We are three weeks away from @CritReadings beginning the summer special on Sir Thomas Malory's LE MORTE DARTHUR.
We hope that you'll pick up a copy of Field's recent edition (or Vinaver's 1970s ed.) and join us over ~14 weeks.
Every episode is free, without ads, as always!
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With @d_n_keane, I to-day recorded our final @CritReadings episode on Antony and Cleopatra. What a brilliant experience it has been reading the play with someone who appreciates it as he does. Proof (if it were needed) that literature is best taught by those who love it!
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Unfortunately, @d_n_keane is a bit under the weather this weekend and unable to record. Get well soon, Drew!
Our next episode will release on 15 April. In the meantime, feel free to catch up on our full back catalogue!
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Happy birthday today to Amy Lowell (9 February 1874 ā 12 May 1925), one of the great imagists of the early XXth century.
There will be a new @CritReadings podcast covering her poetry on Monday!
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What an absolute treat having @madeline_cct on @CritReadings as our special guest!
Look for her in next Monday's episode, the first in our series on Frankenstein!
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@CritReadings Thank you for giving this gentle push to finally pick up this work. I loved reading slowly through the first four chapters, and Iām very excited to hear your first discussion of it. #MobyDick
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Itās still very early in Moby Dick. If itās something you have wanted to read, I canāt recommend enough reading along. The first episode was so great and opened the first chapters up to me even further.
CR Episode 175: Moby Dick, PartĀ I criticalreadings.com/2023/05ā¦
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Love this poem of Melvilleās. We discussed it on @CritReadings in 2021 criticalreadings.com/2021/03ā¦
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If youāre a college graduate and you arenāt familiar with these poets, you should feel a fair bit of shame and regret, and perhaps even anger at those who miseducated you.
If you would like to redress the situation, the @CritReadings podcast will help you a great deal. ā at Lexington, VA
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WRJ Barronās parallel translation. I didnāt give Middle English the attention it deserved at Uni so took twenty years to discover that, of course, itās an extraordinary work of beauty and humor. (Afterwards I listened to @CritReadings excellent analysis too, which also helped.)
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I listened to this episode last evening and have gone back to read Shadows in the Water multiply times. What a beautiful ingenious poem -- simultaneously modern (the split self), Metaphysical, and Romantic.
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To whet your appetite for discussion of Thomas Traherne on @CritReadings with @Prof_Cooper
āShadows In The Waterā by Thomas Traherne, beautifully read by Sir Cedric Hardwicke youtu.be/nTQl0C9l36I via @YouTube
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This brilliant performance of "The Waste Land" by Sir Alec Guinness has helped me to hear passages of the poem in a new way. Look out for the first of four @CritReadings episodes on the poem this Monday youtube.com/watch?v=Hcj4G45Fā¦
