The Classic English Literature Podcast
Where rhyme gets its reason!In a historical survey of English literature, I take a personal and philosophical approach to the major texts of the tradition in order to not only situate the poems, prose, and plays in their own contexts, but also to show their relevance to our own. This show is for the general listener: as a teacher of high school literature and philosophy, I am less than a scholar but more than a buff. I hope to edify and entertain!
Laatste aflevering
Modish Men and the Way of the World: The Great Restoration Comedies of Manners (10-10-2025)
Eerdere afleveringen
- "A Foolish Marriage Vow": John Dryden's Marriage a la Mode and Amphitryon 21-09-2025
- "The Amendment of Vices": John Dryden's Satires 07-09-2025
- Puritans in Arcadia: Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Pastoralism 24-08-2025
- The Ambiguity of Wit: William Wycherly's The Country Wife 03-08-2025
- On The Battle of the Boyne 11-07-2025
- Tea and Revolution: Nahum Tate's "Panacea" 03-07-2025
- Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: Blurring History and Romance 25-06-2025
- Dear Diary: Samuel Pepys, John Evelyn, and Navel-Gazing as History 01-06-2025
- A Parody of Pomposity: Samuel Butler's Hudibras 18-05-2025
- Forward to the Past: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress 04-05-2025
- Nasty, Brutish, and Naturally Free: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and the Social Contract 20-04-2025
- Early Science Fiction: Lunar Geese and Blazing Worlds 02-04-2025
- A Garden and a Coy Mistress: Andrew Marvell 16-03-2025
- The Earliest Tales of Robin Hood (Out of Time Episode 2) 02-03-2025
- To Justify the Ways of God: John Milton's Paradise Lost (episode 2) 17-02-2025
- Sexy Satan: John Milton's Paradise Lost (episode 1) 02-02-2025
- "Pastures New": John Milton's "Lycidas" 12-01-2025
- Christmas on Trial! 23-12-2024
- Cavaliers and Roundheads: The English Civil Wars 20-12-2024
- Thanksgiving in Plain Style 27-11-2024
