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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

January 2023

Frost at MidnightListen now (6 min) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798)
Debra Esolen
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On First Looking into Chapman's HomerListen now (5 min) | Keats (Audio)
Anthony Esolen
Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"Listen now (6 min) | Poem (Audio)
Anthony Esolen
"Ring Out, Wild Bells"Listen now (7 min) | Tennyson, from "In Memoriam," 1850
Anthony Esolen

December 2022

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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November 2022

A Winter EdenListen now (5 min) | Robert Frost (1928)
Anthony Esolen
GratefulnessListen now (5 min) | George Herbert, 1639
Anthony Esolen
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