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Critical Readings

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Critical Readings examines key literary texts using close reading and critical analysis, and explains these approaches in discussion. Listeners will learn about the texts themselves and about how to approach a text for critical analysis.

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CR Episode 85: Canterbury Tales VII – The Squire’s...

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2021/07/05

The panel discusses Fragment V, with attention given both to scholarly theories about whether Chaucer deliberately left the Squire's tale interrupted and unfinished, and to Chaucer's use of estates satire in his depiction of the Franklin and his tale.Continue reading

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57:20

CR Episode 84: Canterbury Tales VI – The Clerk’s and...

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2021/06/28

The panel discusses Fragment IV, containing two tales that deal with men who deliberately engage in unequal marriages to both good and ill results, and considers what these tales demonstrate about historical critiques of progress and the human condition.Continue reading

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77:53

CR Episode 83: Canterbury Tales V – The Wife of...

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2021/06/21

Clinton Collister joins the panel to discuss Fragment III and its potential connexions to The Man of Law's Tale (Fragment II), with a focus on the role of justice, legalism, crime, intent, contractual obligations, and the judicial purpose of punishment.Continue reading

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69:42

CR Episode 82: Canterbury Tales IV – The Man of Law’s...

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2021/06/14

The panel examines The Man of Law's Tale and scholarly arguments about whether it is suited to its putative teller, and consider the tale's depictions of crime and justice (temporal and divine), constancy, providence, misadventure, and religious strife.Continue reading

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69:37

CR Episode 81: Canterbury Tales III – The Miller’s,...

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2021/06/07

Leaving behind the Knight's noble depictions of courtly love, the panel descends through bawdy, sexual misadventures in the form of 'quites'--narrative responses--offered by the drunken Miller and the vengeful Reeve, and the Cook's incomplete tale.Continue reading

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69:57

CR Episode 80: Canterbury Tales II – The Knight’s Tale

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2021/05/31

In the second part of the Canterbury Tales series, the panel reads selections from The Knight's Tale, with a focus on how the three shines--to Venus, to Mars, and to Diana--serve as an interpretive device, and on the connexion to Boethian philosophy.Continue reading

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77:11

CR Episode 79: Canterbury Tales I – General Prologue

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2021/05/24

In the first week of the Canterbury Tales series, the panel reviews the biography of Geoffrey Chaucer, introduces the Canterbury Tales in general, and then reads selections from the General Prologue, with emphasis on Chaucer's development of character.Continue reading

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57:21

CR Episode 78: Kipling, “If”, and The Great War

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2021/05/17

The panel discusses selections from the poetry of Rudyard Kipling, including his most famous poem, "If", and three poems related to The Great War and, its mechanised social aftermath: "Gethsemane", "The Benefactor", and "The Secret of the Machines".Continue reading

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62:59

CR Episode 77: Ben Jonson’s Critical Eye

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2021/05/10

The panel discusses Ben Jonson's role as critic and author of the Elizabethan age, and reads four of his poems, including several of his Epigrams, before concluding with his rhapsodic ode written in memory of his friend, William Shakespeare.Continue reading

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CR Episode 76: Excerpts from Leaves of Grass

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2021/04/26

The panel reads excerpts from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, including poems from the inscriptions, Song of Myself, Children of Adam, and Calamus, considering the formal nature of the 'American Epic', and Whitman's use of individualism and universalism.Continue reading

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CR Episode 75: Excerpts from Astrophil and Stella

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2021/04/19

The panel examines a selection of sonnets and a song from Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, considering the formal and tonal connexions between Sidney's poetry and the works of earlier and later poets, including Chaucer, Petrarch, and Shakespeare.Continue reading

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CR Episode 74: Introduction to Abraham Cowley

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2021/04/12

The panel discusses a selection of poems covering the entire span of Abraham Cowley's oeuvre: beginning with his college years and the unfinished epic 'Davideis', through his popular collections, and concluding with his late 'Ode to the Royal Society'.Continue reading

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63:57

CR Episode 73: Milton’s L’Allegro and Il Penseroso

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2021/04/05

The panel discusses a selection of John Milton's shorter poems, the oft-paired 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso', and examines their use of Orpheus as a metaphor, and their different attitudes to finding communal delight and solitary pleasure in life.Continue reading

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CR Episode 72: Irony in the Poetry of Stephen Crane

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2021/03/29

The panel analyses the use of irony in the poetic works of Stephen Crane, including selections from "War Is Kind" (1899), and discusses the development of realism and imagism in English literature, especially in poetry about the experience of war.Continue reading

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CR Episode 71: Accepting Complexity in Melville’s Poetry

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2021/03/22

The panel analyses contradiction in Melville's earliest and latest published poems: three selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War--his first collection--and "Art" from Timoleon and Other Ventures, published only four months before his death.Continue reading

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CR Episode 70: Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard

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2021/03/15

In a return to the works of Alexander Pope, the panel reads his "Eloisa to Abelard" in full and discusses the complexity of Eloisa's tragic circumstances: her love for Abelard, her vocation as a nun, and the suffering to which they have been subjected.Continue reading

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

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2021/03/08

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".Continue reading

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62:00

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

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2021/03/01

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.Continue reading

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CR Episode 67: An Introduction to Lord Byron

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2021/02/22

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".Continue reading

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CR Episode 66: Poetry and Verse of Robert W. Service

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2021/02/15

The panel discusses the difference between verse and poetry (including whether such a difference exists), and examines three 'frosty' poems by Service, including "Pullman Porter", "The Prospector", and his famous ballad, "The Cremation of Sam McGee".Continue reading

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