Romanticism – Critical Readings

CR Episode 69: Keats and The Eve of St. Agnes

8 March 2021 Critical Readings

The panel discusses the late Romantic shift in focus from nominally Christian, deified Nature to transcendental beauty in three longer works by Keats, including "The Eve of St. Agnes" and excerpts from "Endymion" and the unfinished "Hyperion".

CR Episode 68: Shelley, Ozymandias, and the Death of Keats

1 March 2021 Critical Readings

The panel engages in a wide-ranging discussion of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his relation to the early and late Romantic movements, his work to establish the reputation of Keats, his association with radical politics, and his own untimely death, aged 29.

CR Episode 67: An Introduction to Lord Byron

22 February 2021 Critical Readings

The panel begins a multi-week review of Romanticism with a review of the movement's (and the author's) effects upon poetry, including readings of three works: "Darkness", "The Destruction of Sennacherib", and excerpts from "The Bride of Abydos".

CR Episode 15: Lyrical Ballads, Part I

23 September 2019 Critical Readings

The panel discusses Romanticism and begins a three-week examination of selected poems from Lyrical Ballads, the experimental collection by Wordsworth and Coleridge. This week's selections are Wordsworth's "The Female Vagrant" and "Tintern Abbey".