Archive - Poetry Aloud of Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

A Voyage to Lilliput

Join us for a voyage to Lilliput with Swift's Gulliver in a masterpiece of satire.

Jul 4 •

25:25

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 •

14:37

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 •

5:55

May 2025

"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 •

5:48

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 •

9:57

March 2025

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 •

5:59

"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 •

5:04

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 •

10:09

Rumpelstiltskin

A treat for kids -- and hey, for us too!

Jan 17 •

9:58

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