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Tag: Prose

Peacock Pie, by Randolph Caldecott (from Irving's Sketch Book)

CR Episode 157: Washington Irving’s Christmas

9 January 2023 Critical Readings

The panel reads Washington Irving’s Christmas sequence from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., and examines how its portrayal of an old-fashioned, English Christmas served to influence attitudes towards the ideal of Christmas in the United States.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne FEATURED

CR Episode 152: Young Goodman Brown

28 November 2022 Critical Readings

In Critical Reading’s first episode dedicated to a work of prose, the panel reads Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, Young Goodman Brown, and examines its allegorical structure, considering what it might suggest about both human nature and the modern era.

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John Donne FEATURED

CR Episode 61: Poetry and Prose of John Donne

28 December 2020 Critical Readings

If it must be Donne, let it be done well! The panel reads Donne’s selected poetry and prose: a Christmas sermon, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, “The Flea”, and selections from both “La Corona” and “Holy Sonnets”.

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