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Kubla Khan
Listen 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
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A Lecture on the Shadow
Listen 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
Feb 1
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January 2023
Frost at Midnight
Listen now (6 min) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798)
Debra Esolen
Jan 25
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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Listen now (5 min) | Keats (Audio)
Anthony Esolen
Jan 18
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Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Listen now (6 min) | Poem (Audio)
Anthony Esolen
Jan 11
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"Ring Out, Wild Bells"
Listen now (7 min) | Tennyson, from "In Memoriam," 1850
Anthony Esolen
Jan 4
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December 2022
The Journey of the Magi
Listen now (6 min) | T. S. Eliot, 1927
Anthony Esolen
Dec 28, 2022
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Christmas
Listen now (6 min) | John Betjeman
Anthony Esolen
Dec 21, 2022
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Christmas at Sea
Listen now (7 min) | Robert Louis Stevenson, 1888
Anthony Esolen
Dec 14, 2022
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The House of Christmas
Listen now (6 min) | G. K. Chesterton (1899)
Anthony Esolen
Dec 7, 2022
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November 2022
A Winter Eden
Listen now (5 min) | Robert Frost (1928)
Anthony Esolen
Nov 30, 2022
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Gratefulness
Listen now (5 min) | George Herbert, 1639
Anthony Esolen
Nov 23, 2022
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