Sitemap - 2023 - Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
How to Read a Work of Art: Christmas Masterpieces
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
Resending: A Gift for All Our Subscribers: Tony's Reading of "A Christmas Carol"
A Gift for All Our Subscribers: Tony's Reading of "A Christmas Carol"
"While by My Sheep I Watched by Night"
Putting the Christmas Back in Christ
"Lift up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates"
"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"
Poetry in the Prologue to John's Gospel
"Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus"
"Thrice happy she, that is so well assured"
"Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above"
Revisiting "The Long Gray Line"
"Oh! How I Hate to Get up in the Morning"
"I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say"
"(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay"
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
Excerpt from my new translation of Augustine's Confessions
Leaning On the Everlasting Arms
"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off"
"What may words say, or what may words not say?"
The Literate Farmer and the Planet Venus
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Sweet sapphire of the morning in the east
Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies
"Christian, Dost Thou See Them?"
"How It Strikes a Contemporary"
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
"The Eagle" and "Flower in the Crannied Wall"
"All Things Bright and Beautiful"
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
The Christian Approach to Pagan Literature
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"
What's Fortune got to say for herself?
"Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered"
Once More, with Feeling: "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me"
The Bells of Saint Mary's (1945)
Quality Education is Not Rocket Science
Substack Glitch: Resending "We are Seven" with audio attached
Substack Glitch: Resending "Simple"
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
Revisiting: "My Country, 'Tis of Thee"
Celebrating a Year of Word & Song
"To Dream the Impossible Dream"
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
"Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer"
Dad -- and a Father's Day Offer for Paid Subscribers
Dad -- and a Father's Day Special
Dad -- and a Father's Day Special
From In the Beginning Was the Word
"Now my charms are all o'erthrown"
"Now my charms are all o'erthrown"
"Now my charms are all o'erthrown"
Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B"
Memorial: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
Memorial: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
Now the Laborer's Task is O'er
For Memorial Day: "In Flanders Fields"
"On the Street where You Live"
Revisiting: The Old Cumberland Beggar
Lines Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
Lines Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
Revisiting "Love and Marriage"
King Arthur, in "The Holy Grail"
King Arthur, in "The Holy Grail"
Resending: Speech by Richard II
"For All We Know" (We May Never Meet Again)
"Corinna's Going A-maying" (Audio Version)
Poetry Can Deepen Our Understanding of Scripture
Poetry Can Deepen Our Understanding of Scripture
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
"Spring" (Poem of the Week Audio Version)
Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain
The Song of the Unnamed Disciple
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
There Is a Green Hill Far Away
Revisiting The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
"Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?"
"The King of Love My Shepherd Is"
Drawing Winners & An Easter Offer
Sonnet 23 ("Methought I saw my late espoused saint")
Sonnet 23 ("Methought I saw my late espoused saint")
Conclusion of "The Vanity of Human Wishes"
Conclusion of "The Vanity of Human Wishes"
"As Pants the Hart for Cooling Streams"
Resending Today's Poetry Aloud From The Twelve-Gated City
Revisiting "Love's Old Sweet Song"
More from "Moses on Mount Pisgah"
The Member of the Wedding (1952)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Sonnet 43: "How Do I Love Thee"
Sonnet 43: "How Do I Love Thee?"
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
"There Is a Land of Pure Delight"
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Tech difficulties with this week's podcast
Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
"You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me"