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A Voyage to Lilliput
Join us for a voyage to Lilliput with Swift's Gulliver in a masterpiece of satire.
Jul 4
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June 2025
A Voyage to Lilliput
Join us this summer as we set sail on a grand adventure from the greatest satire in English Literature!
Jun 27
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Anthony Esolen
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Poetry Aloud: George Herbert
Today the poet compares himself to a flower which must perish, but for the tending hand of The Master Gardener to revive it.
Jun 20
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May 2025
The Highwayman
"The Highwayman" was meant to be read aloud. The poet composed it as a young man with the idea of just such a wild adventure stirring his imagination.
May 2
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Anthony Esolen
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April 2025
"The Story of the Cross"
At the end of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain approaches the Green Chapel, a place of foreboding. There is no cross.
Apr 25
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9:57
March 2025
A prodigal son surpasses expectations
Let's visit one of the great moments in English literature, when a young man exceeds all expectations by not being the prodigal everybody thinks he is.
Mar 28
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Anthony Esolen
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The Raven
Today we feature a poem that was once a staple of literature in schools, a tour-de-force of sound and mood which must be heard for its full effect…
Mar 14
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Anthony Esolen
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Moses on Mount Pisgah
Listen now | Poetry Aloud: Excerpt from the first dramatic monologue in The Twelve-Gated City, Dr. Esolen's second book-length sacred poem…
Mar 7
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Anthony Esolen
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6:06
February 2025
Frost at Midnight
For our Poetry Aloud we return to the poet, Coleridge, again contemplating his new-born baby. It's a cold winter night, and he is awake beside his…
Feb 28
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Anthony Esolen
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"The World is Too Much with Us"
For Wordsworth, nature for is not an object of a tourist’s curiosity, something to keep the boredom away. It is a world of mystery, even of a kind of…
Feb 21
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January 2025
The Literate Farmer and the Planet Venus
Imagine that a city slicker shows up at a farm house in New Hampshire and asks the farmer about a bright "star" in the west, which the slicker doesn't…
Jan 24
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Rumpelstiltskin
A treat for kids -- and hey, for us too!
Jan 17
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Anthony Esolen
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