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Stop by on Wednesdays to listen to Tony read the poem of the week. Sometimes you have to hear it to believe it!

Kubla KhanListen now | Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem is all about fantastic visions that move the artist’s mind and soul to creative action. But the thing…
Anthony Esolen
A Lecture on the ShadowListen now | Poem (Audio). If you’re John Donne, you say that the progress of a love affair is like what happens to two people’s shadows as morning…
Debra Esolen
"Ring Out, Wild Bells"Listen now (7 min) | Tennyson, from "In Memoriam," 1850
Anthony Esolen
The Journey of the MagiListen now (6 min) | T. S. Eliot, 1927
Anthony Esolen
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ChristmasListen now (6 min) | John Betjeman
Anthony Esolen
Christmas at SeaListen now (7 min) | Robert Louis Stevenson, 1888
Anthony Esolen
The House of ChristmasListen now (6 min) | G. K. Chesterton (1899)
Anthony Esolen
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A Winter EdenListen now (5 min) | Robert Frost (1928)
Anthony Esolen
GratefulnessListen now (5 min) | George Herbert, 1639
Anthony Esolen
In Flanders FieldsListen now (5 min) | John McCrae (1915)
Anthony Esolen
In the Elegy SeasonListen now | Richard Wilbur
Anthony Esolen
Jordan (I)Listen now | George Herbert, 1639
Anthony Esolen
The Naming of CatsListen now | T. S. Eliot
Anthony Esolen
To AutumnListen now | John Keats
Anthony Esolen
Since There's No HelpListen now | Michael Drayton (Audio)
Anthony Esolen
As Kingfishers Catch FireListen now | Poem (Audio)
Anthony Esolen
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My Last DuchessListen now | Robert Browning (1642)
Anthony Esolen
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Sonnet 116: "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds"Listen now | Shakespeare (Audio)
Anthony Esolen
The Village BlacksmithListen now | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1840)
Anthony Esolen
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"The Quality of Mercy"Listen now | Shylock’s is the lesson we must all learn again and again, and it’s confirmed by the end of the play, not this court scene, but a wedding…
Anthony Esolen
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Kubla KhanListen now | Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem is all about fantastic visions that move the artist’s mind and soul to creative action. But the thing…
Anthony Esolen
A Lecture on the ShadowListen now | Poem (Audio). If you’re John Donne, you say that the progress of a love affair is like what happens to two people’s shadows as morning…
Debra Esolen
"Ring Out, Wild Bells"Listen now (7 min) | Tennyson, from "In Memoriam," 1850
Anthony Esolen
The Journey of the MagiListen now (6 min) | T. S. Eliot, 1927
Anthony Esolen
1
ChristmasListen now (6 min) | John Betjeman
Anthony Esolen
Christmas at SeaListen now (7 min) | Robert Louis Stevenson, 1888
Anthony Esolen
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