Paul Revere’s Ride – Critical Readings

CR Episode 148: Longfellow and the Civil War, Part I

31 October 2022 Critical Readings

In the first of a two-part reading of selections from Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn, the panel reads the beginning of the Prelude and then examines “Paul Revere’s Ride” in detail, with attention to the structure of the text and its formal aspects.

CR Episode 62: Winter with Longfellow

4 January 2021 Critical Readings

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).