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
Puritans in Arcadia: Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Pastoralism (24-08-2025)
Eerdere afleveringen
- 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
- Carpe Diem!: The Cavalier Poets 17-11-2024
- "Death the Leveller" by James Shirley 30-10-2024
- Cant, Costume, and Cutpurses: Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl 26-10-2024
