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Lewis Carroll FEATURED

CR Episode 160: The Poetry of Lewis Carroll

30 January 2023 Critical Readings

The panel reads four poems by Lewis Carroll and discusses the importance of poetic form in nonsense poetry, along with several potentially complicated readings that go beyond straight-forward narrative and verge upon social commentary.

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Robert Stephen Hawker FEATURED

CR Episode 159: The Sangraal of Robert Stephen Hawker

23 January 2023 Critical Readings

The panel reads “The Quest of the Sangraal” by the nineteenth-century parson and poet, Robert Stephen Hawker, with special attention to the use of differing Arthurian traditions and the fusion of mediæval and modern poetic forms, syntax, and vocabulary.

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Thomas Traherne, detail from stained glass at Audley Chantry, by Thomas Denny FEATURED

CR Episode 158: Introduction to Thomas Traherne

16 January 2023 Critical Readings

The panel reads three poems by Thomas Traherne, a late seventeenth-century English poet of imaginative, reflective, and speculative verse, whose manuscripts were discovered by happenstance and saved from the refuse pit in the late nineteenth century.

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